LAHORE: The Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) Quaid, Nawaz Sharif, has stressed upon Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani to ensure the implementation of verdicts of the judiciary and to remove all the hurdles in its way.
Talking to the media at the Ganga Ram Hospital on Monday where he visited the victims of the bomb blasts at Gamay Shah, Nawaz said the government should implement the decisions of courts and the premier should stop President Asif Zardari from obstructing the process.

Commenting on the incident where senior journalist of The News (a local newspaper) Umar Cheema was tortured, he said it was an issue more serious than the ban on TV channels and the media should raise a joint voice against it.

When asked to comment on the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) Prosecutor-General Irfan Qadir’s reported refusal to abide by the Supreme Court’s judgment regarding his (Qadir’s) removal from office, Nawaz said they had supported the Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) government on the 18th Amendment to strengthen national institutions, including the judiciary.

To a question about the premier’s intentions to convene an All Parties Conference (APC) for devising a joint policy on coping with the calamity of floods, he said it was too late to convene the APC, implying that the PML-N would not support the idea if the prime minister decided to organise the conference.

About the Muttahida Qaumi Movement’s Altaf Hussain’s statement on a “martial law-type action against feudal lords and corrupt politicians,” he said it could be the wishful thinking of the enemies of Pakistan and not of well-wishers of the country. He said martial law had been tried in the past only to learn that it was itself a problem instead of being a solution to other problems.

On the ongoing wave of terrorism in the country, Nawaz said those who were killing innocent people could not be termed humans. He affirmed his pledge to continue the struggle against terrorism and to defeat the terror groups instead of accepting defeat at their hands.