LAHORE: PMLN Quaid Muhammad Nawaz Sharif says he does not seek revenge for the atrocious wrongs committed against him, but deems it necessary to hold accountable, those who drove Pakistan into unprecedented crisis and made lives of Pakistanis unbearably miserable.
Addressing a meeting of the PMLN Parliamentary Committee, Nawaz said he was made to suffer unspeakable pain by not even allowing him to speak to his beloved wife as she was breathing her last. He remembered how he had to break the news of the death of her mother to Maryam Nawaz in the jail. He listed the grand smear campaign ruthlessly run with insults and threats by sitting members of higher judiciary.
He talked about the baseless frivolous cases cooked up against him which were at the time even mocked by legal experts but were pushed through to persecute him anyways. But, Nawaz said, he does not seek revenge for all that was unlawfully, illegally, and unjustly done against him.
The former Prime Minister, however, emphasized that the unimaginable damage done to his country and the people of his country would not go unaccounted for.
“Those who made survival of honest, hardworking, patriotic Pakistanis, virtually impossible, would have to answer for their horrific deeds. The largest JIT, with the largest bench, will deliver the biggest decision on February 8th, by the people of Pakistan”, the PMLN Quaid stressed.
“That decision will be against the economic atrocities inflicted on the people of Pakistan. That decision will be for a prosperous, progressing, and economically stable and growing Pakistan”, he added.
He reminded how Pakistan was prosperous in 2017. “Petrol was cheap, the currency was strong, and the country had become a nuclear power. Defensively, economically, and politically, Pakistan was strong. It was said that soon Pakistan would become the fastest-growing country in the region”, he said.
Nawaz told how Electricity load shedding was ending, CPEC was coming to Pakistan, and it was said that Pakistan would join the G20. “During our era, the economic growth rate was 6.3 percent.
Inflation was unheard of; neither flour nor sugar was expensive, and neither electricity nor gas was costly” he asserted.
The former Premier said, “In our time, neither lentils were expensive nor was meat costly; the homes of the poor were thriving. In our time, every year millions of people were getting jobs, and millions were getting rid of poverty”.
He went on to say that during PMLN time, the country was sprinting swiftly in the race of progress, leaving behind the rest of the countries of the region.
Talking about the economic and strategic achievements of PMLN he said, “We had bid farewell to the IMF.We were repaying foreign loans, not taking new ones. Peace was established in Karachi; terrorism was eradicated. We achieved in Pakistan for Pakistan that other nations couldn’t”.
He, however, expressed regret over how things had changed for the worse since his ouster. But he expressed hope and conviction saying that the people of Pakistan would elect those who had proven they could serve the country and its people in a way that keeps them happy and on the path of progress.
