Nawaz Sharif... served two non-consecutive terms as prime minister, heads the Pakistain Müslim League (Nawaz). Noted for his spectacular corruption, the 1998 Pak nuclear test, border war with India, and for being tossed by General Musharraf...
said on Saturday that his party can steer the country out of the crises it is in. He said that the PML-N was making a revolutionary team for a revolutionary programme in the country, adding that "we will build a new Pakistain by mobilising the nation".
Addressing a consultative meeting of party workers from Beautiful Downtown Peshawar, Hazara and Dera Ismail Khan
... the Pearl of Pashtunistan ...
at Model Town, Nawaz said that his party's alliance with the Pakistain People's Party (PPP) would have remained intact had the ruling party resolved the masses' problems.
He said that scheduled power outages, unemployment, price hike and corruption had made the life of every citizen miserable. "We improved the image of Pakistain during our tenure in the past. We served better for defence, national economy, the education and health sectors," Nawaz claimed. He said that parting of ways with the PPP in Punjab was the inner voice of the party workers.
The former prime minister said that the PML-N's long march for the restoration of judiciary had proved that the nation was a standard-bearer of the constitution and justice, adding that the country would be rebuilt with a revolutionary spirit of the long march.
He observed that independent judiciary was performing its sacred obligation to purge the country of corruption. He claimed that educational revolution would be brought in the country to provide science and technology education to the youth as well as provide them maximum facilities in realm of research.
Recalling his achievements during the last tenure, the PML-N chief said, "We had created an atmosphere of investment through economic reforms", and added that there was no scheduled power outages in the country and we were in a position to export electricity.
"Pakistain would have become a superpower in South Asia if conspiracies against the PML-N government had not been hatched," he added.