The government, which boasts itself as the people’s government, left the people high and dry at the end of its five-year term, Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) President Nawaz Sharif said on Friday.
Addressing a large public gathering in Mardan, Nawaz said, “The Pakistan People’s Party (PPP), at the helms of the federal as well as three provincial governments, failed in delivering even the sense of security to the people of Pakistan, let alone food, shelter, and clothes.” He said Karachi was being given a bloodbath everyday, in the form of bombings, massacres and targeted killings. Nawaz vowed a prosperous as well as peaceful Pakistan, solution to the Kashmir issue, and warmer terms with Afghanistan if PML-N came into power. Decrying the PPP’s political victimization, Nawaz said President Asif Ali Zardari imposed governor’s rule in Punjab and had him and his brother, Shahbaz Sharif disqualified by “the Dogar courts”, which was highly condemnable.