Shahbaz apprise US envoy plan for toppling PPP government: WikiLeaks

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Shahbaz apprise US envoy plan for toppling PPP government: WikiLeaks

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Pakistan files of WikiLeaks reveals that PML-N had made a plan for going into midterm elections.

04 September,2011 03:36 pm

Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif had talked with US diplomats about a plan of the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) of toppling the Pakistan People’s Party government.Former US Ambassador in Islamabad, Anne Patterson dispatched a cable back to the US Secretary on October 5, 2009, reporting a meeting of Shahbaz Sharif with US diplomats on October 2, 2009 in which he told them how his party was paving the way for midterm elections. The Punjab CM told them that owing to the bad governance and rampant corruption by the PPP, the very existence of the democratic system was in grave danger.He said that by highlighting the corruption by President Zardari and his cronies, and through use of court verdicts on the NRO cases they would motor a no confidence move against the government, seeking midterm elections.