Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) President Nawaz Sharif said on Wednesday that he was in the court of justice in the memogate scandal case in the larger interest of the nation.
Addressing the provincial council meeting of the party where the party’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa chapter’s new President Pir Sabir Shah and General Secretary Rahmat Salam Khattak were elected unopposed, Sharif said the incumbent government was following the policies former president Pervez Musharraf and it should be held responsible along with the dictator for violation of the country’s sovereignty.
The PML-N chief said if there was democracy within the party, it would manifest itself in strengthening democracy outside the party and would in turn take the country towards economic development.
Talking about the development work undertaken under his reign in the 1990s, Sharif said with the completion of several development projects in Pakistan during his tenure, neighbouring countries took a leaf out of Pakistan’s book and developed their infrastructure and other vital sectors. “Unfortunately, we fell behind in the process of development as martial law was imposed on the country,” he added.
Sharif said all the productive units in the country were shutting down because of load shedding and the economy was shattered as a result, but the government was apathetic. “How can the country be run like this?” he questioned.
He said unemployment and inflation was manifesting itself in gory incidents such as murder and terrorism, adding that the miseries currently surrounding the nation were nowhere in sight during his time in power. “Today there is no one ready to invest in the country and parliament is weaker than before, and the government is not honouring the judiciary’s decisions,” said Sharif.
He said by opting for the war on terror, excesses were committed against the Pakhtuns and the tribal areas were wreaked havoc upon. He said 35,000 people had lost their lives in the war on terror along with $60 billion in losses to the country’s economy.
He said the government had sent appreciative messages to the Americans in the wake of the Abbottabad incident and drone attacks were being carried out against Pakistanis from Pakistani soil.
He said the facts of the tragedy of East Pakistan, assassination of Benazir Bhutto and the Kargil issue were not revealed to the nation. “We will bring the country back onto the track of development if given a chance again, and our workers will bring such a revolution that every kind of tsunami will stand defeated,” he said.
Referring to emergence of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf (PTI), Sharif said the “Musharraf league” was now amassing somewhere else.
