Nawaz, Shahbaz tried to murder me twice, says Zardari

LAHORE: Former Pakistan president As if Ali Z ar dari has claimed that ousted prime minister Nawaz Sharif and his brother Shahbaz Sharif twice planned to assassinate him.

His statements come at a time when political circles have said that Zardari may be entering an understanding with the country’s military high command.

Z ar dari ,62, told party workers in Lahore that Nawaz and Shahbaz plotted his murder when he was serving a eight-year sentence in connection with corruption cases filed against him. He said the Sharif brothers planned to kill him when he was going to a court to attend his hearing. In another incident, the Sharif brothers ordered jailers to cut out his tongue, he claimed.

“The Sharif brothers twice planned my murder in captivity in 1990s,” Zardari said, adding that he would not honour an agreement signed between his deceased wife Benazir Bhutto and N aw az, called the“charter of democracy ”, according to which, both parties were to support each other when under threat from “non-democratic forces”.