Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Sunday said that former chief justice of Pakistan Saqib Nisar led the “gang of conspirators” against Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) supreme leader Nawaz Sharif.
Speaking at a ceremony in Faisalabad to mark the groundbreaking of the Faisalabad-Satyana Interchange, he stated that the former prime minister was implicated in the Panama Papers case despite not being named in the scandal.
He explained that the government had to increase the tariffs of electricity under compulsion to fulfil International Monetary Fund (IMF) conditions. “Despite Imran Khan’s previous stance of preferring death over approaching the IMF, a deal was eventually made with the IMF, transferring the burden to the subsequent government,” he added.
The prime minister called on the public to support the PML-N in the upcoming elections as “revenge” for the alleged theft of their mandate during the 2018 elections, which led to the formation of an ineffective government.
“You must give your votes to PML-N to take revenge. The next prime minister will be Nawaz Sharif. If PML-N receives the mandate for the next five years, we will change the destiny of this country.”
He also stressed JUI-F chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman was an ally of PML-N, adding that there was a natural connection between his party and JUI-F..
A day earlier, while addressing a ceremony after the inauguration of different development projects, PM Shehbaz urged people to consider facts when comparing the “poor and pathetic performance of corruption-tainted Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) government” with that of the PML-N.
The PML-N stalwart said that his party would accept the public mandate in the upcoming general elections. If the PML-N, under the leadership of Nawaz Sharif, is given another opportunity to serve the country, the party will restore the “real image” of Pakistan, claimed Shehbaz.
Shehbaz termed Nawaz Sharif as “a builder of Pakistan, the man behind an end to loadshedding, the launch of China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) projects, and a builder of a vast network of roads, who put the country on the path of rapid progress”.
