Unfulfilled promises behind crises, says Nawaz

He was addressing a public meeting arranged here at Raiwind Farm to mark completion of 10 years of bloodless military coup staged by General (r) Pervez Musharraf. PML-N President and CM Punjab Shahbaz Sharif, Ishaq Dar, Khawaja Saad Rafiq, Mian Mujtaba Shuja ur Rehman, Mian Marghoob Ahmed, Begum Zakia Shahnawaz and all party MNAs and MPAs, party officer bearers and a large number of workers attended the meeting. He said that at this critical juncture every person was seeking the answers of such questions. He said the nation was pondering that those countries which got freedom along with Pakistan had excelled while country was lagging behind. “I myself smoulder and bleed for the deteriorating situation pushing the country toward chaos,” he said.

Showing his apprehension over the fast devaluation of rupee, he said that rupee was undergoing the process of depreciation and if the downslide trend was not stopped, country would head towards economic death soon. Unemployment, price-hike, law and order situation are worse than 1947 when Pakistan came into being, he pointed out. To ensure the integrity of country and making Pakistan stand as prestigious nation in the line of developed countries, he said that there was only one remedy that the nation got buckled up to stop the way of dictatorship with full force and courage.

He strongly condemned the dictatorship, saying dictatorial regimes had made the country money-starved. He said that due to ill-conceived policies of dictatorships “we are seeking alms by holding the Kashkool in our hands.” During the tenure of four dictators, the nation did not hear any good news. When PML-N was in power, we tested atomic bombs, launched motorways and other development projects,” he added.