LAHORE The PML-N chief Mian Nawaz Sharif said Tuesday the PPP leaders would take a decision about their ministers in the Punjab cabinet soon. Talking to journalists at Allama Iqbal airport before leaving for London, he said the matter had been settled.

The PML-N chief said Asif Ali Zardari was a constitutional and democratically elected president and the PML-N believed in transfer of power through elections. The president and the prime minister should be elected in accordance with provisions of the constitution and law of the land, he added.

“We met Mr Zardari and congratulated him because he is the elected and constitutional President of Pakistan, and we acknowledge the mandate given to him as president,” Mr Sharif said and added, “we want the government to complete its five-year constitutional term while ensuring good governance, rule of law and supremacy of the 1973 Constitution of and the parliament.”

He said the 17th Amendment must be repealed, adding that the PML-N would support all PPP steps to strengthen democratic norms. “If the Charter of Democracy is followed in letter and spirit Pakistan cannot go wrong,” the PML-N chief pointed out.

Mr Sharif said his party would stick to its stand on restoration of judges who, according to him, should be reinstated to their pre-Nov 3, 2007 positions. He said the PML-N considered the recent oath-taking of some of the deposed judges as fresh appointments.—APP