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Says those behind imposing him on Pakistan were equally responsible for the current state of affairs

SIALKOT, Nov 25 (SABAH): Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) Quaid and former prime minister Mian Muhammad Nawaz Sharif on Saturday said the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan didn’t come into power on his own as he was promoted to the office, adding that those behind imposing him on Pakistan were equally responsible for the current state of affairs. 

This was stated by Nawaz Sharif while addressing a PML-N workers’ convention in Sialkot. Why RTS was shut down and election results manipulated in 2018, Nawaz Shairf questioned and noted that the whole exercise was designed to place a person into power who knew nothing but abusive language. Nawaz Sharif said they were neither defeated in 1993 and 1999 nor in 2017 – the years when his tenures ended prematurely – and noted that his governments had always been toppled without any reason.

He questioned how a country could be managed when the prime ministers were removed arbitrarily. Pakistan would have been much better placed if his governments weren’t toppled and continuity of policies had been ensured, he said.

Nawaz Sharif listed the positives of his 2013-17 tenure when, he said, the country was moving forward with a lot of job opportunities and low rate of inflation, and remarked that it wasn’t just removal of his government; in fact, the entire country had been derailed.

A prime minister elected by millions of people was kicked out of the office by five persons, he said about the five-member bench which sentenced and disqualified him in the Panama Papers case.

“We cannot afford repeating the mistakes again and again,” the PML-N supremo said. “We have experienced injustices but have never and would never work against the country’s interests.”

In his speech, PML-N senior leader Khawaja Muhammad Asif said Nawaz Sharif would be elected prime minister for a fourth term on February 8, adding that those trying to remove the three-time prime minister from politics had vanished.

Not a single MNA of Nawaz’s party switched his or her loyalty despite all the hardships and political victimisation they had to face, he said and mentioned that there was a long queue of individuals requesting forgiveness over their past actions. Maryam Nawaz Sharif, Marriyum Aurangzeb and other PML-N leaders were also present on the occasion.