Image Source : REUTERS Former Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif
Former Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on Wednesday made a reference in the direction of India by saying that ‘nations round us have reached the Moon’, whereas blaming the navy institution for Islamabad’s ongoing financial and political issues.
Addressing the parliamentary board assembly in Lahore, the 73-year-old former PM stated, “Pakistan has been stuck in difficulties. We go two steps forward and then 10 steps backwards…this has been happening for the last 75 years. Who is responsible for this?”
Referring to India, the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) supremo stated, “The countries around us have reached the Moon while we could not rise from the Earth… who is responsible for this?” Nawaz additionally referred to as for holding these accountable for driving Pakistan into an unprecedented disaster and making the lives of the residents unbearably depressing.
“Unimaginable injury has been carried out to his nation and people liable for it is not going to go unaccounted for,” he remarked. Nawaz has blamed former military chief Gen Qamar Javed Bajwa and ex-ISI chief Gen Faiz Hamid and two former chief justices of Pakistan Saqib Nisar and Asif Saeed Khosa for ousting him from energy in 2017 and bringing in Imran Khan.
Nawaz Sharif on India and the US
Earlier, the PML-N supremo stated that neither India nor the United States are liable for Pakistan’s present issues. “Today where Pakistan has reached (in terms of the state of the economy) this is not done by India, the US, or even Afghanistan. In fact, we shot ourselves in our own foot…they (a reference to the military) imposed a selected (government) on this nation by rigging the 2018 polls that led to the sufferings of the people and downfall of the economy,” he stated.
During a dialog with Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) ticket aspirants, the occasion supremo, who’s eying to turn into prime minister for a file fourth time, identified that he was ousted from energy 3 times in 1993, 1999 and 2017.
Since his return in October after 4 years of self-imposed exile, the previous PM has been receiving clear chits in all graft circumstances through which he was beforehand convicted. He has obtained acquittals within the Al-Azizia Mills case and the Avenfield reference, clearing the way in which for him to take part within the common elections.
On the opposite hand, Imran Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) alleged that underneath the ‘London Plan’ Nawaz Sharif will probably be made the Prime Minister following the February 8 polls with the blessing of the navy institution underneath Army Chief Gen Asim Munir, whereas the PTI will probably be crushed.
On Monday, Nawaz stated that in 1999, “I was prime minister in the morning and in the evening I was declared a hijacker. Similarly in 2017, I was ousted from power for not taking salary from my son.” “They (navy institution) made this choice as they wished to deliver their chosen man into energy,” he stated, referring to his arch-rival Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf supremo Imran Khan.
(with inputs from PTI)
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