Time over for APC on floods: Nawaz

LAHORE – Terrorist activities being perpetrated in various parts of the country are part of enemy’s plan to destabilise Pakistan, PML-N Chief Nawaz Sharif said here on Monday.
He maintained that the nation was determined to frustrate the enemy designs through concerted efforts.

The two-time prime minister said this while talking to reporters in the Emergency section of a local hospital where he inquired after the health of those injured in Wednesday’s three back-to-back blasts near Karbala Gamay Shah, which killed more than 40 people and injured some 300 others.
Security at the hospital had been tightened and traffic diverted.
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The nation will not give in to the terrorists,” said the PML-N leader.
Replying to a question, Nawaz said the enemy could harbour the desire to consign Pakistan to yet another military rule. He, however, made it clear that the country could not afford such an eventuality yet again.
He said the National Assembly had already addressed in detail the speech made by MQM Chief Altaf Hussain on the subject.
When it was pointed out to him that the NAB prosecutor-general, whose sacking had been ordered by none else but the Supreme Court, was still there on the job, Nawaz said it was regrettable to find that the Apex Court’s decision had not been implemented.
He called upon the government to enforce the verdict.
The former prime minister said the judiciary had been restored not with a hope that it would provide a chance to the government to flout its verdicts.


He said if President Asif Ali Zardari was obstructing the judicial verdict, the Prime Minister should stop him. Otherwise, he said, both the President and the Prime Minister would be held responsible for defiance
He told a questioner that an all-party conference being considered by the government on the issue of flood situation had lost its utility as the time to hold it was already over.

Jordan's king speaks to Musharraf about Pakistan floods

WASHINGTON - King Abdullah of Jordan, who is here in connection with the Middle East peace talks, spoke to former President Pervez Musharraf on Tuesday about the situation resulting from the devastating floods in Pakistan, a source close to the ex-Pakistani leader said.
The source said that Gen. Musharraf has been calling a number of leaders around the globe drawing their attention to the plight of million of Pakistan left homeless by the natural disaster and the economic losses that the country has suffered.

Apart from the flood situation, Gen. Musharraf also discussed with the Jordanian king political situation in the country and other matters of interest to the two leaders.
Meanwhile, another Musharraf aide said that that the ex-president was all set to launch All Pakistan Muslim League in London next month. He said that Musharraf believes that the Pakistan People's Party and PML-N had failed to provide good governance and to deliver the goods. The party he is launching would provide a third option to the people of Pakistan, he said.
The aide also said that Musharraf is discussing his planes to return to Pakistan in order to focus on issues, such as the need to root out corruption in the country.