Benazir calls Sharif unreliable and quarrelsome

Former Pakistan Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto has ruled out the possibility of seat adjustment with the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) in the forthcoming elections, saying Nawaz Sharif is unreliable and quarrelsome.

Islamabad, Aug 2 : Former Pakistan Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto has ruled out the possibility of seat adjustment with the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) in the forthcoming elections, saying Nawaz Sharif is "unreliable and quarrelsome."

At a meeting of the Pakistan People's Party (PPP) ticket aspirants from Punjab in London after her Abu Dhabi visit, a party leader suggested seat adjustment with the PML-N where the latter has strongholds, but Benazir rejected it, saying this is out of the question.

"First, he (Nawaz) was not on good terms with President Ghulam Ishaq Khan, later developed differences with the army chief (Asif Nawaz), then with the Chief Justice (Sajjad Ali Shah) and then with another army chief (General Musharraf)," sources quoted Benazir, as saying from London.

The PPP chief further said that Nawaz wanted his deal with Musharraf to end at eight years and did not want to complete his ten-year exile. Instead of making efforts to cut another deal with Musharraf, he was blaming her for the deal, The News reported.

She went on to say that the PML-N and MMA should look at their own misdeeds instead of blaming her for the deal.

The PML-N leadership had cut a deal for going into exile in Saudi Arabia to escape legal action against them, and the MMA helped in incorporating the Legal Framework Order (LFO) into the Constitution to secure concessions from the military establishment, she added.

Benazir also discounted forming any partnership with the MMA. She said terrorists were often recovered from their homes, so her party could not form an ally with them.

ANI