Former prime minister Nawaz Sharif in an interview on Wednesday said that he had “every intention” of returning home and described President Pervez Musharraf as a “gone man”. According to Sharif, Musharraf’s time in power is limited. He described him to The Times newspaper as a “gone man” whose “options are totally exhausted and starting from today, [his fall] is simply a matter of time.”Speaking from his exiled central London home, Sharif added, “protests are in every nook and cranny of the country...It is a positive development that people are realising that the dictator is destroying institutions.” Sharif continued to say that Musharraf, who he described as “erratic, unpredictable and impulsive,” should have consulted with parliament and the Pakistani people before backing the United States in the so-called “war on terror” in 2001.
Musharraf is “hoodwinking the international community, telling them that he is the only option except extremists, and that is absolute rubbish,” Sharif said. He added that he felt “personally let down” by US President George W Bush, who is “alienating 160 million Pakistanis” for Musharraf.
