ISLAMABAD: While recording his statement before the accountability court for a third consecutive day on Wednesday in Avenfield case, former premier Nawaz Shairf stated that after opening sedition proceedings against Musharraf, he was asked by an intelligence officer to resign from the office of Prime Minister or go for an extended leave.<br /><br />“The purpose of the message was to question how dare I initiate an inquiry against Musharraf,” Nawaz said. PML-N supremo also claimed that he was asked to make the parliament endorse the second martial law by Musharraf. “The message was conveyed to me by Asif Ali Zardari. However, I refused to do it. This is the gist of my actual crime”, he added.<br /><br />Nawaz steered his statements towards political blame game and targeted his political opponents while recording answers of the last five of the 128 questions asked by the accountability court.<br /><br />“Dictatorships miserably harmed Pakistan and dictators must be penalized for their wrongdoings”, he said complaining that all the weapons are made for politicians.<br /><br />Deposed premier refused to present witness in his defense and criticized: “prosecution has failed in proving me guilty then why should I bring my witnesses in defense?”<br /><br />In his consistent diatribe against judiciary, he said “I was ousted merely on the basis of Iqama (work permit), yet I bowed before the Supreme Court’s verdict of disqualification from government office”.
