"The judges welcomed every martial law. Whenever there was a military coup in the country, no one had known about it, but this is not the case today," he said. In obvious reference to Pervez Musharraf, Sharif demanded a trial for military dictators the way he was tried by the Supreme Court.
"We have to see what happened to people in 1971, when the country was torn into two parts. They were the people who worked day and night with Quaid-e-Azam to create Pakistan. No lesson was learnt and even today such games are being played," he said. He acknowledged that the politicians are responsible for remaining tight-lipped against the judiciary when it gave military dictators the right to make changes to the Constitution, thereby giving the dictators the right they did not deserve.
About the recent tweets by US president Donald Trump, he said that Trump used insulting language about Pakistan, which no country with self-respect can tolerate. "We have been humiliated, and we should try to find the reason why we were humiliated," he added. "Today, the time has come and we must stand up and find the reasons behind such humiliation as Pakistan is a sovereign state," he added.