{"id":33964,"date":"2013-02-14T13:36:19","date_gmt":"2013-02-14T11:36:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/?p=33964"},"modified":"2013-02-14T13:36:19","modified_gmt":"2013-02-14T11:36:19","slug":"pakistan-president-claims-saved-opposition-leader-nawaz-from-hanging-33964","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/pakistan-president-claims-saved-opposition-leader-nawaz-from-hanging-33964\/","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan president claims saved opposition leader Nawaz from hanging"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_33965\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-33965\" style=\"width: 273px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-33965\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Zardar-Nawaz-Nationalturk-14.jpg\" alt=\"Pakistan president Asif Ali Zardari and opposition leader Nawaz Sharif shaking hands. 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File Pic<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h1>Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari has claimed that he had saved opposition leader and Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) chief Nawaz Sharif from being hanged.<\/h1>\n<p>Islamabad, Feb 14\/Nationalturk \u2013In a major revelation, Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari has claimed that he had saved opposition leader and Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) chief Nawaz Sharif from being hanged by country\u2019s former army chief and president General (Retd) Parvez Musharraf.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGeneral Musharraf imprisoned country\u2019s then Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif after overthrowing his government in 1999 military coup. \u00a0After imprisoning him, Musharraf had been pressuring Justice Rehmat Hussain Jafri to severely punish Nawaz and award death sentence to him,\u201d Zardari was quoted as saying by Pakistan\u2019s newspaper Express Tribune.<\/p>\n<p>Zardari, who is now Pakistan\u2019s president, said he had some acquaintance with Justice Jafri and used his good offices with him to save Nawaz Sharif\u2019s life. \u201cWhen I heard Musharraf was pressuring him into punishing Nawaz, I advised him to settle the case only on merit,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<h2>I convinced Justice Jafri not to award capital punishment to Nawaz<\/h2>\n<p>He said he was successful in convincing Justice Jafri against awarding capital punishment for Nawaz Sharif, who is now opposition leader in Pakistan.<\/p>\n<p>However, there has been no response from Nawaz Sharif about Zardari\u2019s claim.<\/p>\n<p>After overthrowing Nawaz Sharif&#8217;s \u00a0government in 1999, Musharraf had imprisoned him and released him only after the intervention of king of Saudi Arabia, Pakistan\u2019s close ally. Later, Nawaz was sent into exile and allowed to return at the fag end of Musharraf\u2019s era in 2007 under a secret deal.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Write your comments and thoughts below<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Faiz Ahmad \/ NationalTurk Pakistan News<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<!-- Error, Advert is not available at this time due to schedule\/geolocation restrictions! -->\n<h1><\/h1>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari has claimed that he had saved opposition leader and Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) chief Nawaz Sharif from being hanged <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":732,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,80,63,1,118,85,101,14],"tags":[13980,40895,43444,45883,38368,45885,45884,11385,44685,45881,636,31422,45887,38178,45882,45440,45886,42175,3469,45880,45888],"class_list":["post-33964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia","category-breaking-news","category-daily","category-general","category-hot","category-media-news","category-politics","category-world","tag-asif-ali-zardari","tag-death-sentence","tag-express-tribune","tag-former-army-chief","tag-hanged","tag-imprisoned","tag-justice-rehmat-hussain-jafri","tag-military-coup","tag-nawaz-sharif","tag-opposition-leader","tag-pakistan","tag-pakistan-president","tag-pakistans-close-ally","tag-parvez-musharraf","tag-pml-n-chief","tag-punish","tag-released","tag-revelation","tag-saudi-arabia","tag-saved","tag-secret-deal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33964","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/732"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33964"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33964\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}