Senior leaders of the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz continued their tirade against President Asif Ali Zardari on Thursday with party chief Nawaz Sharif saying that suicide attacks in the country were taking place due to the continuation of the one-man policy, while Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif criticised Zardari for “congratulating outsiders on the violation of country’s geographical boundaries” after the May 2 incident. Addressing a public gathering, Nawaz said, “Pakistan’s borders are being violated.
Drones fly from inside Pakistan and launch attacks. But the government is deceiving the people. Suicide attacks and terrorist acts are taking place due to the one-man policy in the country.” Meanwhile, in his public addresses in Fatehpur, Abbaspur and Khari Sharif, Shahbaz asked was “Zardari the president of Pakistan or an agent of foreigners”.
Addressing Zardari, he said, “The entire nation is fully aware of your cunningness but your politics will meet its end in the Azad Kashmir elections on June 26”.
At Abbaspur, Shahbaz said those raising the slogan of “Kashmir bane ga Pakistan” had spared no effort to sell Kashmir.
He said if the PML-N formed a government in AJK after the elections, mobile hospitals, Daanish schools and Aashiyana housing schemes for the poor would be launched in the area.
He said the Pakistan Army did not need to be advocated by a plunderer, adding that the PML-N was struggling against robbers who wanted to set up rule in AJK. He said, “We love every soldier and general of the army as we know the army has saved Pakistan by shedding its blood on the Line of Control. But we hate that general [Zardari] who covered up his crimes through the NRO. You are mistaken if you think you can contest elections in Pakistan or Azad Kashmir with the money looted from the people of Pakistan.
The entire population of the country will teach you a lesson”.
Separately, PPP leader Babar Awan told reporters that the people knew Nawaz Sharif would leave the country again, so he should not browbeat others.
He said the environment in Punjab alone was turbulent while the other provinces were calm. He criticised Shahbaz’s statement in which he threatened to bury President Zardari along with his agenda in Naudero. He said he wanted to tell Nawaz that hundreds of PPP workers and members of the Bhutto family, who had sacrificed their lives for democracy, were buried in Naudero and it would be an honour to be buried there.