Islamabad: Exiled former Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has ruled out striking any deal with President Pervez Musharraf saying it was a "sin" to work with the military leadership.
"Pakistan is not a Garrison State of its Army and the military rule is like a fatal venom for the country. Military rulers are a fatal poison for the country. Democratic powers must unite on a single platform," Sharif said in a telephonic address to the General Council of Pakistan Muslim League-N on Thursday.
"During the last seven years I never talked to the government and I consider it a big sin to strike any deal with generals," Sharif said referring to claims ministers that Sharif and another former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto were in touch with the government for a deal.
The PML-N council later re-elected Sharif's brother Shabaz Sharif, who lived with him in exile as a President. Senior party leader Rajz Zafarul Haq was re-elected as Chairman of the party.
Sharif in his address said his struggle is not against the entire army but against the bunch of "six Generals that are power hungry", apparently referring to Corps Commanders who formed of the top echelons of the Pakistan Army.
"The military rulers should leave power otherwise they will be removed," Sharif who recently signed a Charter of Democracy with Bhutto in London to oppose the military rule in
his country said.
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