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Sharief wife denies seeking foreign govt help

Deposed prime minister Nawaz Sharief's wife Kulsoom Sharief has denied she is approaching foreign governments with appeals to help save her husband's life.

''We cannot go out anywhere without being shadowed by army personnel. Our house is under watch,'' she told the BBC last night.

By this she has perhaps meant that she has not made any contact with foreign envoys in Islamabad.

She said Sharief was well within his constitutional authority when he dismissed General Pervez Musharraf as the army chief on October 12 just before the military struck.

But General Musharraf's action had no constitutional validity, she asserted. She said in the whole army, General Musharraf is only person who is against the Sharief family.

He is trying to wreak personal vendetta, she said.

She also attended a Pakistan Muslim League meeting in Peshawar yesterday at which she bitterly criticised General Musharraf. She has been addressing party meetings, although she denies she has any intentions to take over its leadership.

UNI

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