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Sharif signed deal in 2000: Pak govt

By admin | August 22, 2007

The Pakistan government has argued that former Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif signed an exile deal with President Pervez Musharraf and said that he should not be allowed to return.

The Musharraf led administration filed objections in the Supreme Court in response to constitutional petitions by the Sharif brothers asking they be given the right to return.

The government also attached a copy of the agreement with the application. Later addressing the press, the attorney general displayed a copy of an undertaking, which Nawaz Sharif signed on the December 2, 2000.

He apparently pledged not to engage in any political business against the interest of Pakistan while in exile in Saudi Arabia.

There is a paragraph that talks about the fact that he must not engage in any political activities or give any interviews and that he will not return for a period of 10 years.

All this has been denied by Nawaz Sharif and in an exclusive interview to NDTV, he seemed to suggest that in fact he had an agreement only with the government of Saudi Arabia.

The government of Pakistan is not saying who it was signed with and this document has no official seal.

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