Former premier Nawaz Sharif said on Tuesday that President General Pervez Musharraf’s removal from the army would make “a lot of difference,” but insisted the president do much more to end Pakistan’s political crisis, AP reported.Nawaz said Musharraf must also lift the emergency and reinstate the ousted judges to ensure the elections are fair - a condition that the general is highly unlikely to meet. Separately, addressing a press conference at Lahore Press Club after visiting deposed Justices Khawaja Sharif, Khalilur Rehman Ramday and Supreme Court Bar President Aitzaz Ahsan, he alleged that some elements had plans to rig the polls to get a two-thirds majority to validate all of Musharraf’s unconstitutional acts in the next parliament, according to a Daily Times report.
Nawaz said only boycotting the elections could foil this rigging plan, adding that an All Parties Democratic Movement (APDM) meeting on November 29 would decide about a boycott.