LAHORE – Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) chief Nawaz Sharif should have given a 12-point agenda to his younger brother, as the Punjab CM was promoting horse-trading in the province, former Punjab chief minister Chaudhry Pervaiz Elahi said on Sunday.
Addressing a press conference at his residence, Elahi said that the Punjab government was directionless while corruption and bad governance were also prevailing in Punjab. He said that the Punjab government has lost Rs 7 billion in the Information Technology sector. Former National Assembly member Chaudhry Wajahat Hussain, Punjab Opposition Leader Chaudhry Zaheeruddin, former Punjab law minister Basharat Raja, Kamil Ali Agha and Chaudhry Akram were also present on the occasion.
The former Punjab CM said that Nawaz has forgotten to give an ultimatum to his younger brother who was ruling the country’s 60 percent population. He said that the PML-N violated the Charter of Democracy and started the politics of revenge. Elahi said that poor policies and nepotism of the Punjab government had washed away the province’s surplus and Punjab was under a Rs 2.5 billion debt while the education, health and law departments have also been destroyed.
The PML-Q MNA said that Nawaz ignored Shahbaz intentionally before giving his 12-point agenda. He said that the IT sector is incurring a Rs 37 billion loss annually while the Punjab government has canceled scholarships of IT students and destroyed thousands of IT jobs in the province. Elahi said that that the Punjab government wasted Rs 5 billion under the garb of IT laboratories just like the sasti roti scheme.
He said that due to the provincial government’s poor health policies, doctors were going abroad and patients deprived of free medicines and emergency services.
