LAHORE: PML-N president Nawaz Sharif has categorically stated that he is against giving extension in service to ISI Director General Shuja Pasha.

Talking to journalists after offering fateha for Col Sheraz who died in a terrorist attack in the Bara subdivision of Khyber Agency, he said he would not say anything on the matter because the residence of the late Colonel was not an appropriate place to discuss such issues.

He said he was there to offer condolences to the family of the army officer who had sacrificed his life for the country.

He, however, said the masses suffered whenever army generals ventured into politics. Answering a question about Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani’s statement on the Seraiki province, Mr Sharif said that the prime minister should speak and act ‘responsibly’ on such issues.

Also on Monday, addressing a meeting of the general council of Punjab PML-N, he said the time for change was not far off. A revolutionary programme is being prepared to transform the destiny of the country and bring prosperity to people and raise their standard of living.

He said the PML-N would implement its agenda in cooperation with the masses to project sovereignty of the country and to give it a dignified status in the comity of nations.

Had the democratic governments been allowed to complete their tenure, he said, the situation would have been different from it was today.

He congratulated Shahbaz Sharif on his unopposed election as president of PML-N Punjab and asked him to speed up work on the party’s mission to serve people.

PML-N chairman Raja Zafarul Haq, Senator Ishaq Dar, Iqbal Zafar Jhagra, Syed Ghaus Ali Shah, Sardar Zulfiqar Ali Khan Khosa, Hamza Shahbaz Sharif, Ahsan Iqbal, members of national and provincial assemblies, provincial ministers, members of the council from all over the province and a large number of PML-N workers were present on the occasion.