LAHORE, June 14: Some PML-N leaders are reportedly advising Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif to “drive a final nail into the coffin” of the PPP by solving the Bhuttos’ murder cases.
A former chief minister of Sindh called on the prime minister in Islamabad a couple of days ago and urged him to launch a final assault on the party that ruled the country in the previous term but was confined to Sindh after the May 13 polls, a PML-N official privy to the development said.
Mr Sharif was advised that earliest solving the mystery shrouding the assassination of PPP chairperson Benazir Bhutto as well as deciding the ‘judicial murder’ of late Zulfikar Ali Bhutto could suck the remaining blood out of the PPP in Sindh, he said.
The former chief minister also sought that he should be appointed governor of the province so that the PPP could be ousted prematurely from the Sindh government, he added.
PML-N central information secretary Mushahidullah Khan was not aware of any such proposal being presented to Mr Sharif.
He, however, asserted that the prime minister would never buy any ‘undemocratic’ suggestion like wrapping up the government of a party that enjoyed mandate of the people.
“My leader has showed his democratic mindset by sacrificing his party’s likely governments in Balochistan and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. I cannot believe that Mr Sharif will distort his image by agreeing to undemocratic proposals,” Mr Khan said.Meanwhile, a PML-N official said governors of Sindh and Punjab would be replaced by the month-end.
He said the prime minister out of decency was not forwarding his advice to the president for replacing the Sindh governor and was giving opportunity to Ishratul Ebad to resign on his own following in the footsteps of Balochistan and Punjab governors Zulfiqar Magsi and Ahmed Mehmood.
“But the decency would not go long.”
He denied that Mr Ebad was being retained for keeping channels open with the MQM for likely cooperation in Sindh politics.