Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) President Nawaz Sharif has blamed the Pakistan Peoples Party’s government and its allies for all current problems, claiming that the country was developing at a rapid pace when he was the prime minister.
Addressing the laptop distribution ceremony at Punjab University on Friday, Nawaz said in Pakistan, dictatorship had been nurtured and promoted, which not only divided the country but also tried to bar the sapling of democracy from growing.
He said Musharraf had arrested judges, abrogated the constitution and put the country in its “darkest era”. He said four years ago, Zardari had forced the PML-N to make a coalition government in the center and in Punjab, but when his party observed that Zardari was not interested to change “his way of corruption”, they immediately stopped supporting Zardari and departed from the coalition government.
Nawaz said that during his imprisonment, he watched a BBC talk show on the achievements of India on its 50th Independence Day in which former Indian prime ministers were invited He said the former PMs had unanimously agreed that Indian’s prosperity and progress was due to no compromise on democracy.
Nawaz was of the view that martial laws brought numerous damages to the country and they sowed seeds of hate among the people. “Our neighbouring country is successful because of the continuity and consistency of democracy,” he said. Nawaz said his party believed in practical steps to address public grievances. “If more money is invested in education then it will help nurture a revolutionary youth,” he added. “We are not distributing weapons to the students — we have given them laptops,” he said, adding that his party would be distributing 300,000 more laptops in the next budget.
Nawaz Sharif blames PPP, allies for all ills
