LAHORE: Pakistan Muslim League-N chief Nawaz Sharif on Tuesday received a reply from President Asif Ali Zardari to a letter he wrote to the PPP co-chairman on November 10.
According to the contents of the letter distributed to the media by PML-N media managers, President Zardari appreciated suggestions forwarded by Nawaz.
The letter says, “Dear Nawaz Sharif Sb, Thank you for your letter dated November 10, 2010, regarding issues that the nation is facing today. Your letter contained some valuable proposals with regard to your concern over certain issues, which we are considering with an open mind.
I appreciate your point of view, but would only able to respond to these after due deliberations within shortest possible time. Please accept my regards and eid greetings on the occasion of Eidul Azha. Yours sincerely, AZ.”
On the other hand, PPP spokesman said it was an interim reply and a detailed response to Nawaz’s letter would be given later. However, party insiders say the PPP top leadership is in no mood to give any other reply.
They said the letter quoted by the PML-N was nothing more than an acknowledgment. “Nawaz did politics of letters, he got an answer in the same coin,” a PPP source said. In his letter to the president, PML-N chief Nawaz had proposed initiatives and measures to combat corruption and checking inflation, and assured the government of the party’s cooperation in implementing the proposals.
“There appears to be no end to the galloping inflation, unprecedented price hike and rising unemployment, all of which has made it virtually impossible for the common man to make two ends meet. The middle class, which is the backbone of any vibrant society, has been crippled, while the poorer classes have been driven into a state of utter despair,” Nawaz wrote.
The PML-N leader had said that the developments, understandably, had led to widespread alarm among the county’s friends abroad, and given rise to pessimism and despondency within the country.
