Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif on Saturday said he would prefer to resign rather than receive President Asif Ali Zardari at the airport. Speaking at a rally on Saturday, Shahbaz said Zardari would face the music in next elections for his deeds.
“Should I receive the person who plundered national wealth,” he questioned.
The chief minister said Benazir Bhutto was a democratic force and had felt the pain of people. “Had Benazir visited Punjab, I would have received her even if I had to do this for 100 times.”
He said Punjab was sinking while the president was busy in hatching conspiracies against the province. “The president was also conspiring against the Punjab government at the time of dengue outbreak in Punjab,” he charged.
Shahbaz said the president was visiting France when the nation was facing flash floods.
He reminded that during the Long March, the PML-N workers had spoiled all the so-called glitter of the rulers. He said the president in connivance with the Dogar court attacked the Punjab government in 2009, but the people of the province thwarted this attack.
Shahbaz said the president left the masses high and dry during rains and floods in 2010 and went to France.
“I swear that Zardari has plundered the national exchequer and kept it in Swiss Banks,” he added.
Responding to a statement of the president in which he had termed the Sharif brothers as “immigrants”, the chief minister said the president was not aware of the very essence of the word.
“Zardari! It’s your ill perceived dream that you will snatch my pride, for the masses will snatch your chair,” said a roaring chief minister.
“We will expose the real face of Zardari to the masses from Khyber to Karachi and that of all the touts of Musharraf who are now standing by him,” he said.
Zardari, you are not Benazir: Shahbaz
