APROPOS the article `End this misery` (Nov 19). The writer concluded that `Nawaz is done.` I greatly respect the writer`s views but beg to disagree. Look at the history of Nawaz Sharif`s numerous comebacks to power.
Mr Sharif`s first term came to an abrupt halt in April 1993 when President Ghulam Ishaq Khan dissolved the National Assembly. A month later in May 1993, he returned to power when the Supreme Court ruled the presidential order to dissolve the National Assembly unconstitutional. Soon thereafter, a soft coup forced both President Ghulam Ishaq Khan and Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif to resign.
Nawaz became prime minister for the second time in 1997 when the PML-N won a landslide victory in the general election.
This government was ousted by Gen Pervaiz Musharraf in a coup on Oct 12, 1997.
Nawaz became PM for a third time in May 2013. The Supreme Court disqualified him on July 28. The judgment said that since Mr Sharif did not disclose his salary as chairman of a Dubai-based company, in his declaration of assets before the election commission of Pakistan at the time of contesting election 2013, the prime minister was disqualified for concealment of assets.
The court said the salary constituted asan asset and concealment of asset is illegal.
Not only was he disqualified as prime minister, he was also disqualified from holding chairmanship of the PML-N party.
However, Mr Sharif got the law amended and he became its chairman.
On these grounds I do not believe that `Nawaz is done.
