I sent back Musharrafs emissary three times: Nawaz Sharif

Expressing his unwillingness to serve under President Pervez Musharraf, former Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has said he refused to meet the Generals emissary three times.

Lahore, Aug 8 : Expressing his unwillingness to serve under President Pervez Musharraf, former Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has said he refused to meet the General's emissary three times.

"I don't want to become another Shaukat Aziz. I don't want to become a dummy Prime Minister," Sharif said.

Commenting on the eight years of Musharraf's regime, Sharif said, "I won't call it survival. He's a man whose foundation is wrong, who came to power at gunpoint, who subverted the Constitution."

On the Lal Masjid episode, he said that Musharraf created the issue himself, adding, "What was he doing for the past six months? Why did he allow ammunition build-up inside the masjid?"

"He (Musharraf) is not a darling of the West. He is hoodwinking them. He's giving them an impression of being a friend, but back home he's doing exactly the opposite," the Daily Times quoted Sharif, as saying.

Musharraf can never be trusted. He said that he would retire as army general before December 31, 2004, but has never fulfilled that commitment, he added.

Speaking about the Musharraf-Bhutto deal, he said, "I think no party or person who believes in democracy should get into any dialogue with military dictators. They ruined our system."

When asked if the deal take place, will it last, he said, "I don't think any such an arrangement will last."

He went on to say that it was the military generals' intervention that has made an impression that Pakistan is a failed state.

ANI