Nawaz Sharif says he was the kind of person who did not harbour malice, enmity or revenge against others

MURREE, June 08 (SABAH): Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) President and former prime minister Mian Muhammad Nawaz Sharif on Saturday said he was the kind of person who did not harbour malice, enmity or revenge against others.

Without taking Pakistan Tehreek e Insaf (PTI) founder Imran Khan’s name, Nawaz Sharif said he always behaved like an angry man. “He once said in a public rally ‘Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif I will drag you here’,” he said lambasting the PTI founder over his disrespectful remarks against the then-serving PM.

The former prime minister said this while addressing a meeting of the PML-N parliamentary members in Murree on Saturday.

On the contrary, he said he had working relationship with the Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) and his party signed the Charter of Democracy with former prime minister Benazir Bhutto as well.

The PML-N president said that during Imran Khan’s tenure, he was threatened to get his prison cell’s AC removed. However, he said he did not believe in political vengeance.

In fact, the three-time prime minister said that he did not even think about it as Imran Khan is serving his jail sentence now.

Nawaz Sharif expressed satisfaction over the role of the federal and Punjab governments in reducing prices of essential commodities.

He particularly appreciated the efforts of Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and Punjab Chief Minister Maryam Nawaz Sharif in this regard. He was confident that Pakistan would soon come out of crises.

The PML-N president said such policies should be framed that brought down the prices of electricity and gas. “Maryam Nawaz played a key role in bringing down inflation by not letting wheat price increase,” he said. He said overall inflation was dipping and stock market was “unprecedentedly” skyrocketing.

Nawaz Sharif was full of praise for Shehbaz Sharif who, he said, working hard to provide relief to the masses – the main target of the ruling PML-N. The former prime minister recalled that he had left the government by ending power outages and much lower electricity tariffs.

Nawaz Sharif again questioned why his democratically-elected governments were removed and said the life of poor people in Pakistan had been miserable by pushing inflation to a record high due to the policies followed by the PTI government.

He questioned how the problems faced by the poor won’t be multiplied if the conditions set by the IMF (International Monetary Fund) were accepted.

Nawaz Sharif asked Imran Khan not to blame the PML-N, as they, not his party, were responsible for damaging democracy.

Nawaz Sharif called for a probe to determine the actions committed by different individuals during the country’s history.

At the same time, Nawaz Sharif described Shahid Khaqan Abbasi as a wonderful person who served jail time bravely and stood by him during a challenging period.

Nawaz Sharif said it goes to the credit of the PML-N to execute mega development projects.