Joining the chorus against power outages, Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) chief Nawaz Sharif has given an ultimatum to the government to end load shedding in two days or else he would join the protests himself.
He was addressing a mammoth public rally organized as part of the PML-N’s “Remove Gilani” movement. “Over 20 hours of power outages have really irked the common man,” he said in an emotional tone.
Expressing despair with the present government, the PML-N president said he would not sit idle until the fate of the country was not changed. He asked Shahbaz Sharif, the Punjab chief minister, to allocate a Rs 1 billion as “Khushab Package”.
“I request him to increase the already allocated amount of Rs 500 million to Rs 1 billion.” Nawaz said he had nothing to do with the power and government, rather his mission was to bring progress and prosperity in the country. “During our reign India was less developed than Pakistan, but now the circumstances have changed and Pakistan is being degraded throughout the world,” he added. Nawaz said no general had the right to topple a democratic government.
“A military man wasted 10 years of my life,” he said. He said that the government led by the PPP had given the nation nothing but corruption, power shortage, lawlessness and unemployment. Nawaz said as the prime minister he rejected the US offer of billions of dollars in exchange for not conducting nuclear tests, while President Asif Zardari’s government had transferred millions of dollars abroad.
Addressing the public rally, Nisar Ali Khan said both the president and prime minister were now convicted by the court. “We are not asking for votes in the upcoming elections, but asking you come on roads against skyrocketing powers outages,” he added. “The country’s top brass is making fun of the common people as they are looting the country’s wealth to transfer the money abroad.”
End outages in two days or else: Nawaz
