MANSEHRA: With around two weeks left for the upcoming general elections, Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz’s (PML-N) supremo Nawaz Sharif Monday said that it would not be an easy task to bring the country back on track.
Nawaz Sharif’s remarks come as major political parties, including Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP), PML-N, and others, have ramped up their electoral campaigns in their bid to woo the nation of 240 million who will elect their representatives in February.
Addressing a rally in Mansehra, from where he is contesting on NA-15, the PML-N supremo said that Pakistan had fallen behind in the world and that the country has to be “rebuilt.”
Reflecting on his previous tenure as prime minister, he said that not only his government had restricted the dollar to 104 — against the Pakistani rupee — but had also “eliminated” the loadshedding from the country.
Without taking any names, Nawaz Sharif also fired a fresh salvo against Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) and its founder Imran Khan, and lamented that the people of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa fell and voted for this “liar”.
Recalling the 2013 polls, Nawaz Sharif said that Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman had approached him on forming a coalition government in KP, however, he decided against it in favour of respecting PTI’s right to form the government due to their numbers.
I asked the people of the province what they [PTI] did during their ten-year rule, he said while taking a jibe at the party that ruled the province from 2013 till January 2023.
These people have ruined this province, he added.
Nawaz Sharif promises to address rampant inflation, create jobs
Promising to address rampant inflation, he reassured that, if voted into power, his government would ensure the creation of job opportunities and would see that Mansehra got its own airport and that universities and colleges were set up in the area.
