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June 17, 1999

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Opposition asks Sharif to step down

The opposition in Pakistan has demanded the formation of a national government, while expressing its distrust in the Nawaz Sharif government in the wake of the Kargil crisis.

The demand was made by the Pakistan Awami Ittehad at a public meeting in Faisalabad (Punjab). Its president Nawabzada Nasarullah Khan told the meeting that the Sharif government must at once step down in the national interest and make way for a national government.

Nawabzada alleged that Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif had destroyed all democratic institutions in the country and established dictatorship.

Leader of the Muslim League Party, Hamid Nasir Chatha, said Sharif has brought the country to such a pass where threat to its integrity comes from within and not from outside. Provincialism has reached a dangerous level and the president has been very ineffective -- he is now only a financial liability for the country, he said.

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