LAHORE, Dec 31: The Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) has chided Pakistan Muslim League-N (PML-N) leader Chaudhry Nisar Ali for his ‘irresponsible’ statements.

In a statement on Wednesday, PPP Punjab President Rana Aftab Ahmed Khan and Secretary-General Samiullah Khan said the leaders like Mr Khan were doing drawing room politics at the time when Asif Ali Zardari was languishing in jail in the regime of Pervez Musharraf.

They said some leaders also struck a deal with Gen Musharraf and left the country and it was a joke that such people were demanding Musharraf’s trial.

It was the PPP that had forced Gen Musharraf to doff off uniform, the statement says.

They said Mr Khan had grabbed the office of the opposition leader in the National Assembly for which Javed Hashmi was more deserving as he had sacrificed for democracy.

The statement said Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif was violating the Charter of Democracy as he had yet to appoint the opposition leader as chairman of the Public Accounts Committee while the PPP-coalition government had appointed

The PPP leaders alleged the PML-N leader had been working on some “secret agenda” and his party leaders should be aware of this.