VEHARI, Dec 18: Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) patron Nawaz Sharif said on Tuesday President Pervez Musharraf repeatedly violated the Constitution and massacred innocent people.

“You should ensure victory of the PML-N for Pakistan’s progress and prosperity,” Sharif told a public gathering at Alhalal Hockey Ground here in the afternoon.

“Musharraf surrendered to the US the way Lt-Gen Amir Abdullah Niazi surrendered to India’s Lt-Gen Jagjit Singh Aurora in East Pakistan in 1971 and caused Dhaka to fall,” he said, adding those protecting the interests of the US could not be the well-wishers of Pakistan or its people.

The PML-N chief said his party would ensure justice to people. He paid a tribute to lawyers who shed their blood on road for the reinstatement of deposed judges. He asked people to support the lawyers’ movement.

He said the Jan 8 election would prove a referendum against Musharraf. “I need your vote to oust Musharraf and his cronies from the power.”

He said Musharraf and his cronies in the power written off loans worth Rs107 billion at the time when poor people were being arrested for not paying loans they got for the construction of their houses.

He said the poor auctioned their houses to retire the loans, while the influential got their loans written off in collusion with their ‘protectors’ in the government.

Sharif said the Pakistan Muslim League-Q was a representative of political turncoats. He asked people not to vote for the PML-Q because it was the supporter of a dictator.