Islamabad: Former Pakistani Prime Minister in exile Nawaz Sharif has rejected President Pervez Musharraf's offer of ensuring that his party will have an 'equal and fair chance' to contest the general elections slated for later this year, a daily reported on Saturday.
Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) leader Sharif rejected the offer while talking to President Musharraf's emissary Mushahid Hussain (over the telephone from London) on Friday, saying he could not make compromises on the miseries of the Islamic nation, according to The News.
Sharif was of the view that by accepting a deal from Gen Musharraf aimed at ending their eight-year-old enmity, PML-N could not ditch the people of Pakistan and its political allies who had posed trust in him by attending an All Parties' Conference in the United Kingdom.
The rejection came after Hussain, assigned the task of contacting the Sharifs, told Nawaz's brother Shahbaz that the government intended to invite him to Pakistan for holding talks and deciding the future course of action keeping in view the general elections in November.
The President's emissary is reported to have told Shahbaz that Gen Musharraf was behind this initiative and the government was ready to let the PML-N have an equal and fair chance to contest the polls. He even hinted at the President's willingness to allow Nawaz Sharif to return to Pakistan.
In fact, the fresh overtures by the government stem from the recent pressure from the West on Gen Musharraf to sanctify the coming elections and to bring 'real democracy' in Pakistan.
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