Mashallah. A good decision by PML (N). Why does PPP not follow suit and refuse to take oath from the alleged illegal President?
http://thenews.jang.com.pk/top_story_detail.asp?Id=13233
**PML-N not to be part of federal cabinet: Nisar **
ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) on Tuesday made it clear that it would become a part of the government at the Centre and would extend unconditional support to the Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) in formation of the government, however, showed reservations to become a part of the federal cabinet.
**“We will not become a part of the federal cabinet as to become a member of the cabinet, one has to take oath from Pervez Musharraf,” central leader of the PML-N Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan said while addressing a news conference here at the party’s secretariat. **
Chaudhry Nisar said there was no change in the PML-N stance that Pervez Musharraf was an unconstitutional president. “How can we take oath from an unconstitutional president,” he questioned.
Chaudhry Nisar, who is also a close aide of former prime minister Nawaz Sharif, recalled that it would be for the first time in the country’s political history that a party would not demand share in the cabinet in a coalition government. " Our support to the PPP in the formation of government at the Centre is unconditional and our only demand is the restoration of the judiciary as it was on November 2, 2007," he maintained. Asked whether the PML-N would accept the offer for the NA speaker slot, he replied that he was talking about only not to join the federal cabinet.
“We do not want any conflicts on power-sharing for the sake of national interests,” he said. To a question, Chaudhry Nisar said the PML-N, however, would not impose its agenda on the PPP and would give it free hand for first six months. However, he maintained that the PML-N parliamentarians would take oath under the 1973 Constitution as it was on October 12, 1999. " Let it be matter on record that we will take oath under the 1973 Constitution," he said. Nisar said they had also reached a written understanding with the PPP on the restoration of the judiciary and a procedure in this connection had been agreed to which would be revealed on the formation of parliament.
To a question, he rejected an impression that the main focus of the PML-N in talks with the PPP was Pervez Musharraf, saying they were wasting time to discuss this issue. " Musharraf is not a focus of our consultations and our one-point agenda is how to reinstate the sacked judges," he said.
Nisar pointed out that it would be up to the restored judiciary to give its verdict on qualification of Musharraf as president of Pakistan." “We will accept Musharraf as president only when the restored judiciary declares him to be qualified as president,” he said.
About the MQM joining the governments at the Centre and in Sindh, he said the PML-N leadership had conveyed its serious reservations to the PPP on the MQM in this connection but would not create any obstacles for the PPP leadership in formation of governments with the inclusion of Altaf Hussain-led party in this regard. He accused President Musharraf of still interfering in the affairs of Pakistan Army as he was still occupying the Army House even after his retirement as the Army chief. " It is high time for Musharraf to resign, stop interfering in Army’s affairs and leave the Army House," the PML-N leader demanded.
He also condemned killing of Surgeon-General Pakistan Army, Lt General Mushtaq in a suicide attack on Monday. " Musharraf is killing all innocent people who fell victim to war on terror," he said. Chaudhry Nisar stressed that the United States would have to reconsider its guns and mortars policy against terrorism as it had failed to yield results.
someone is still bitter about PML-Q losing.