LAHORE PML-N leader Mian Nawaz Sharif has ruled out an alliance with the PML-Q, saying if it had been on the cards, it would have been done before the Sept 6 presidential elections.

He was talking to the media at the Lahore airport on his return from London early on Friday morning.

He saw no threat to his party's government in Punjab and said that the elements conspiring against it would fail.

Replying to a question about continuing US attacks on tribal areas of the country, the former prime minister said that he failed to understand American policy.

Demanding that the alleged secret agreements reached with Washington be made public, he asked if the attacks were Islamabad's reward for serving American interests during the past eight years.

Replying to a question regarding the piecemeal restoration of judges, he said it was humiliating and a mockery of the justice system.

He said that the PML-N stood by its position on the 17th amendment which it had declared while signing the Charter of Democracy (CoD) with assassinated PPP chairperson Benazir Bhutto.