F.P. Report
LAHORE: Former three-time prime minister and PML-N supremo Nawaz Sharif has rued that those who abided by constitution and law, they were sent packing to install a ‘selected’ on the seat of authority.
Nawaz Sharif expressed these views while addressing a meeting of the PML-N Parliamentary Board in Lahore on Monday. He said that he never thought that he would be removed for getting salary from his son.
“An elected prime minister was removed to bring a ‘selected’,” he added.
Nawaz said that they had bidden goodbye to the IMF ‘but everything has reversed in this country now. He said that Ishaq Dar had told the Fund that Pakistan did not need it anymore. Pakistan is among 10 most populous countries of the world. Maybe we have been stricken by an evil eye or maybe we are sincere with ourselves, he added.
Enumerating his government’s achievements, the PML-N supreme leader said that they built motorways from Peshawar to Sukkur, repaid foreign loans, gave mega projects like CPEC, built dams, ended loadshedding in the country and constructed Lawari Tunnel.
He lamented that his government created peace in Karachi but someone else got Karachi votes. “It is strange that we solve issues and someone else get votes.”
He vowed that the Karachi-Hyderabad motorway would definitely be built.
Nawaz said, “The PML-N works for people, it empathizes with the poor. We do not want that prices of flour and lentils will go through the roof in the country. In our tenure, a Roti used to sell for Rs4, today its price is Rs20 now. Some philanthropists have installed Roti plants to provide free bread to the poor.”
The PML-N leader said that we forgot injustices committed to us. He said, “Someone should have asked how a person who was the prime minister in the morning, became hijacker in the night.”
He went on to say: “We never broke the constitution and law. We always safeguarded the constitution. We suffered on account of those who breached the constitution.”
In a vitriolic tone, the former premier said that he spent more time in exile than in the PM House. He said that the PML-N leaders were implicated in false cases. A fabricated case of heroin smuggling was made against Rana Sanaullah. He said the judges dismissed all the false cases against us, we neither stole any buffalo nor did we ever think about that.
