Musharraf offered me to become prime minister: Shehbaz

LAHORE, Feb 21 (APP):Chief Minister Punjab Muhammad Shehbaz Sharif Wednesday said that
Pervez Musharraf had offered him to become the prime minister.
Replying to queries by media persons after agreement signing
ceremony between Land Record Authority and NADRA here at Model Town,
he said, he had told Musharraf, though he had shown trust in him but things did
not happen like that in the democratic system.
If Musharraf had any grievance then, he said, he could arrange his meeting with
Nawaz Sharif. “If there is another issue, then I am ready to play
my role for it, because I am of the view that there should be
complete harmony between Islamabad and Rawalpindi.”
Upon it, he said, Musharraf asked him to arrange his meeting adding he was
going to Sri Lanka and he would also prepare notes for the meeting.
Shehbaz said he made it clear to Musharraf that if he was not loyal to his leadership
then how could he be loyal to him. However, martial law was
imposed afterwards, the chief minister said.
Shehbaz Sharif compared the Patwar culture with Land
Record Management Information System and said that corrupt Patwar
culture had been eliminated to a large extent, but an attempt was
made to include this obsolete method in the new system. “I took
immediate notice of it and action was taken against the responsible persons”, he added.
He quoted the phrase that ‘one rotten fish could contaminate
the entire pond’, and said that these people tried to ruin the new
system, but he did not let it happen.
He said, the World Bank had termed
the computerization of land record model in Punjab as number one
in the whole world, as well as a role model. It was an honor for
the Punjab government and the whole country, and the
credit went to all the team members.
Responding to another question, the chief minister said,
“We are not afraid of NAB; I have issued clear-cut instructions
to handover record to NAB according to the law, because we have
served the masses in a transparent manner.”