SWABI, Jan 31 The PML-N chief Nawaz Sharif is ready to extend all-out cooperation to the PPP government if President Asif Ali Zardari implements Charter of Democracy and Murree Declaration, inked by the two parties.

This was stated by PML-N district president Iftikhar Ahmad Khan and general secretary Dildar Khan who met Nawaz Sharif at his Raiwand residence in Lahore on Friday.

Briefing journalists here on Saturday about their talks with the party head, they said that Mr Sharif thought that the government had failed to uphold the agreements signed for strengthening democracy in the country.

They maintained that the PML-N chief was still willing that the two major political parties should work jointly as they struggled for the restoration of democratic order in the country.

“The strengthening of institutions is not possible without an independent judiciary. We also pledged with the people during the last year election and it was the demand of the majority of the people,” the PML-N local leaders said while quoting their head.

“Without a free judiciary the other institutions would remain weakened and when the institutions are feeble democracy could not build its roots.”

According to them, Mr Sharif called for immediate reinstatement of the deposed judges, declaring that the PML-N leaders and workers would actively participate in the lawyers' long march, scheduled for March 9. He said that his party would not give up the struggle for restoration of the ousted judges.

Mr Sharif said that the eight-year dictatorship had weakened the institutions in the country and that the present government should give up the 'flawed' policies pursued by Gen (retired) Musharraf.

The Swabi PML-N leaders informed that Mr Sharif also discussed with them the breakdown of law and order, increasing prices of the commodities and unemployment.

Mr Iftikhar and Mr Khan said that they briefed their leader about the failure of the government to establish its writ in the troubled-hit Swat.

“We also invited our leader to visit the district and he accepted our invitation. I hope he would visit the district very soon,” said Mr Iftikhar.