Sharifs to be treated as per law: Prime Minister

10 Sep, 2007

Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz on Sunday said the government would act according to law in the case of a come-back by former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and his brother Shahbaz Sharif.
"They (Sharif brothers) will be treated according to the law. Law will take its course. Pakistan is a country where the constitution is in place and that will be followed in this case", he said in an interview with Sky News television channel late Sunday.To a question about the uniform of President General Pervez Musharraf, the Prime Minister said the President had stated repeatedly that he would follow the country's constitution. He said the country's constitution allows President Musharraf to remain in uniform till the end of this year, adding, however any decision in this respect.
Would be taken by the President himself. Asked about the whereabouts of Osama Bin Laden, the Prime Minister said, "nobody knows where he is," and if anyone knows about him, he would have been going after him.
He termed as mere "speculations" reports of Osama Bin Laden's presence in some remote border areas between Pakistan and Afghanistan and said, "there was no credible and tangible information about him."
"The whole world is looking for him (Osama Bin Laden) and when we will have any credible information about him, we will act promptly", he added. The Prime Minister mentioned the recent release of Osama's video-tape, which shows he was still alive, but rejected the assumption that he might be along the Pak-Afghan border areas, saying, he would be in a country, which lacks writ of government and law, and where he can stay indoors for a long time.

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