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PML-N to contest all seats: Nawaz

The Dawn, By Our Staff Reporter, 29/8/2002
http://www.dawn.com/2002/08/29/nat5.htm

LAHORE - LAHORE, Aug 28: The PML(N) will put up its candidates on all seats to defeat those who had betrayed the party, a statement issued here on Wednesday night quoted Mian Nawaz Sharif as saying. The statement has been issued by former deputy mayor Mian Muhammad Rashid, who has just returned after meeting the deposed prime minister in Saudi Arabia.

Mr Sharif, who is now Quaid of his party, reiterated that he had struck no deal with the military regime. Similarly, he said, he himself had decided to elevate his brother Mian Shahbaz Sharif as party president. The rest, he said, was all propaganda.

He pointed out that the party had reposed confidence in him but it was on his insistence that they had accepted the decision to make Shahbaz Sharif as their president. The former prime minister said his party would continue to cooperate with the PPP from the platform of the ARD. He said it was premature to say whether his party would be willing to form coalition with the PPP. Mr Sharif said the basic issue at present was of the restoration of democracy, not formation of coalition.