Nawaz says won’t let PM mock judiciary

Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) President Nawaz Sharif on Tuesday said his party was fully charged to launch a protest march to save the judiciary from humiliation at the hands of convicted Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani. .
“Earlier, we launched a long march to get the judges reinstated and now we will do the same to save them from disgrace,” Nawaz said while addressing a May Day function that was held to hand out keys to labourers for houses constructed by the Punjab government.
Pressing the words “enough is enough”, Nawaz said, “We tolerated the PPP government and Gilani for four years but we will not put up with courts’ insult anymore.”
“The decision to resort to protests is painful, but the government has left no other option for us but to swing into action to get the court’s decisions implemented,” he said.
Justifying the planned long march, the PML-N chief said if no action was taken against the derogatory attitude of the convicted PM, anarchy would prevail and would lead the country towards a miserable end.
Commenting on media discussions on the political scenario, he said certain sections of the press were painting the PML-N’s upright stance against the PPP as a return of politics of 1980s and 1990s. “I want to make it clear on them that this time we are not receding rather proceeding,” he added.
He called the war for keeping the SC’s dignity intact a war for the survival and integrity of Pakistan.
“I was taunted with sarcasm of playing a fixed match with Zardari. We tolerated such criticism with a large heart and reason behind it was that the PML-N did not want Pakistan to become a laughing stock of the world,” Nawaz said.
He said had the central government been working better, the PML-N would have been standing with it in the progress of the country. However, the PPP-led government dashed all hopes, he added.
Commenting on bad governance, the PML-N president said Gilani’s government had blown the lid off corruption. “Corruption is so rife that sons and cousins of influential people are being named in kickbacks and embezzlements,” he added.
He said that if the people elected good people through votes in the future, the situation would turn from bad to good.
Nawaz said the PML-N had also taken revolutionary steps for the welfare of labourers from 1990 to 1993.
He said those raising slogans of roti, kapra and makaan have made these three things out of reach of the people. He said the PML-N had taken revolutionary steps for the welfare of the people during its previous governments and launched various welfare projects, like the three-marla scheme, Jinnah Colony and Mera Ghar Scheme.
Nawaz said Pakistan had excess electricity in his tenure and was planning to export it to India.
Nawaz said if the nation “makes correct decision in the coming elections, problems of the country will be resolved, the country will progress and people will become prosperous”.