Pakistan to file 'exile deal' with Sharifs
Pakistan Muslim League-Q President to file 'exile deal' with Sharifs in Supreme Court.
By PTI |
Islamabad: The Pakistan government will submit to the Supreme Court a secret deal that former premier Nawaz Sharif and his family reportedly struck with General Pervez Musharraf for their "exile" to Saudi Arabia, chief of the ruling party supporting the President has said.
"We have with us a copy of the deal between the Sharif brothers and the government and we will submit it to the Supreme Court," Pakistan Muslim League-Q (PML-Q) President Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain said.
He said the government will submit a copy of the written secret deal that the former prime minister and his family reportedly struck with Musharraf for their exile. When asked about the identity of the signatories to the deal papers, Hussain told mediapersons on Thursday at the parliament that all those who were out of the country had signed the deal.
The Sharif brothers flew to Saudi Arabia in December 2000 after reportedly finalising a deal with Musharraf, but the former prime minister has always denied any such deal.
Meanwhile, the Saudi Embassy here expressed its ignorance about the presence of any accord between Islamabad and Riyadh, barring deposed prime minister from entering Pakistan before a 'ten-year exile'.
"The Embassy has no information about any document or accord reached between the two countries in the year 2000, which bars the Sharif brothers from entering Pakistan for at least ten years," The News daily quoted the Saudi mission to the Islamic nation as saying.
Even according to a document signed by Sharif before he was sent to Jeddah, none of the details of the "deal" which the government claimed was entered between Sharif, Musharraf and the Saudi royals about his 'ten-year exile' along with his family existed on paper, the daily said.
"We have with us a copy of the deal between the Sharif brothers and the government and we will submit it to the Supreme Court," Pakistan Muslim League-Q (PML-Q) President Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain said.
He said the government will submit a copy of the written secret deal that the former prime minister and his family reportedly struck with Musharraf for their exile. When asked about the identity of the signatories to the deal papers, Hussain told mediapersons on Thursday at the parliament that all those who were out of the country had signed the deal.
The Sharif brothers flew to Saudi Arabia in December 2000 after reportedly finalising a deal with Musharraf, but the former prime minister has always denied any such deal.
Meanwhile, the Saudi Embassy here expressed its ignorance about the presence of any accord between Islamabad and Riyadh, barring deposed prime minister from entering Pakistan before a 'ten-year exile'.
"The Embassy has no information about any document or accord reached between the two countries in the year 2000, which bars the Sharif brothers from entering Pakistan for at least ten years," The News daily quoted the Saudi mission to the Islamic nation as saying.
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Even according to a document signed by Sharif before he was sent to Jeddah, none of the details of the "deal" which the government claimed was entered between Sharif, Musharraf and the Saudi royals about his 'ten-year exile' along with his family existed on paper, the daily said.
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