Geo Pakistan May 29

Nawaz to face PM if probe body not formed

Updated at: 0538 PST,  Saturday, May 28, 2011  SARGODHA: Pakistan Muslim League-N Chief Nawaz Sharif Saturday warned that he would be facing the Prime Minister in case the proposed independent commission to investigate into the Abbottabad incident was not constituted, Geo News reported. Addressing a public meeting in Sargodha, Nawaz Sharif said he would not allow the Parliamentary resolution to be thrown into trash bin and the dramas staged in Islamabad would not be tolerated either. The Parliamentary resolution must be acted upon in letter and spirit, he asserted. “Pakistan instead of making progress seems to be heading backwards and despite being an atomic power the world is issuing threats to us,” he regretted, maintaining the Abbottabad incident should not have happened. He, added, that Prime Minister’s terming it a huge success was a horrible joke with the nation. The PML-N Chief said those who had allowed such a raid to take place in Pakistan had actually failed in safeguarding the country’s security and called for the constitution of the proposed independent commission at the earliest. He said the sovereignty of the country was being trampled to a sheer disregard of the rulers. Refering to the Abbottabad and Karachi debacles, Nawaz Sharif said that the nation wanted the real culprits to be awarded punishment. “Alive nations are never wary of accountability and our national pride cannot put up with Abbottabad-like operations,” he added. The N-League leader termed poverty, unemployment, terrorism and load-shedding as the biggest challenges and as gifts from Musharraf who had fled from the country. “A day will come when he will be held accountable,” he hoped, adding a military dictator considers the parliament as his household servant. He said what a tragedy it was that a citizen gets caught for violating a red traffic light but the one who abrogates the Constitution escapes punishment. “We will not allow anyone to escape and everyone would be subjected to accountability,” he warned.