ISLAMABAD, Jan 13: PML-N chief Mian Nawaz Sharif has said that his party is ready to work with President Asif Ali Zardari if the latter fulfils his pledges and ‘comes on track’.

“If Asif Ali Zardari comes on the right track and fulfils his promises made with the PML-N, we are ready to embrace him,” he said at a press conference here on Tuesday.

Mr Sharif said the PML-N would table a bill in parliament to repeal the 17th Amendment.

He said the bill could be approved within 10 minutes if the government wanted to do so. The PML-N was determined to undo the 17th Amendment and most PPP members also wanted it. However, time would tell who would support the move for its repeal and who would oppose it.

Responding to a question, he said Mr Zardari had not fulfilled the promises he had made but he would not blame the PPP for it. “My relations with Asif Ali Zardari are very old; it is another matter that Asif Zardari has forgotten it after becoming the president,” he remarked. He said judges should be reinstated with honour and new judges should be appointed under the Charter of Democracy. The movement for reinstatement of the deposed judges, he said, was a national movement.—Online