Democracy is Pakistan's future : PM

ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif said Saturday that democracy is the future of Pakistan. In a statement to mark October 12, Prime Minister Sharif said that there was an elected parliament, independent judiciary and dynamic media to protect the constitution and rights of Pakistan’s citizens. The prime minister added that the country would now only be governed according to the constitution, and through it the identity, security and freedom of the nation would be secured. Prime Minister Sharif added that no steps could be taken which were against the will of the people. On October 12, 1999 the then Chief of Army Staff General Pervez Musharraf had toppled the government of prime minister Nawaz Sharif and later sent him to Saudi Arabia in exile. In a dramatic twist of fate after a period of over a decade, Nawaz Sharif today is the Prime Minister of Pakistan while General (retd) Pervez Musharraf is spending his days in detention in his own farm in Chak Shahzad.