MARDAN – PML-N President Nawaz Sharif said on Friday that if given chance his party would bring peace to the restive parts of the country and prosperity to the whole nation.During five-year rule of PPP-led government hundreds of innocent people were killed in bloodshed in Karachi and Balochistan, the chief of Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) said while addressing a huge public meeting at the Railway Ground Mardan.“If we came into power we will restore law and order in the country”, eliminate loadshedding in two years and end unemployment by creating new opportunities, he told the public meeting held just two days before Pakistan Tehrik-i-Insaf’s rally in Peshawar.The event was organised by PTI ex-Vice President Khawaja Khan Muhammad Hoti, who joined Nawaz League a few months back. On the occasion, Awami National Party’s (ANP) former district president Abdul Hameed Khan advocate, Surish Komar and Haji Mir Alam along with their supporters announced joining the PML-N.In his speech, Nawaz said that the manifesto he announced on Thursday was not just a compilation of hollow slogans, rather he would honour his words as his intention is fair and just. If he came into power, he said, he would start bullet train from Peshawar to Karachi, turn Mardan into an industrial state, and establish a kidney and a burn center in the district. He said he would develop better relations with Afghanistan and solve the issue of Kashmir.Nawaz said that the federal government had treated the Punjab government in unscrupulous manner and Dogar court disqualified him and his brother Shahbaz Sharif. But despite this cold-heartedness, the government of Punjab was educating the poor in an ideal manner and providing better health facilities to the masses. He added that Punjab government was providing free treatment to the poor kidney patients and giving houses to the poor, besides provision of free laptops to the students.Nawaz said during their rule the country was on the path of progress and development and had he remained in power the situation in Pakistan would have been different. He said that during PML-N’s government Pakistani currency and economy were stronger than that of India. He said he had plans to link Torkham to Karachi and Gwadar and integrate the region by connecting the country through motorway to Jalalabad, Kabul and Mazar-i-Sharif cities of Afghanistan and to Tashkent city of Uzbekistan, and in this connection he had arranged meeting with presidents of both these countries.Kwaja Muhammad Khan Hoti, Pir Sabir Shah and Inayat Shah Bacha advocate also addressed the public meeting. PML-N vice-president Amir Muqam, Sardar Mehtab Ahmad Khan, Iqbal Zafar Jhagra, Farid Toofan, Mian Rashid Ali Shah, Nawabzada Arsala Khan, Ali Khan Yousafzai, Tahira Bukhari, Shaheen Habibullah and other party leaders were also present on the occasion. PML-N workers from Mardan, Malakand, Sawabi, Nowshera and other areas attended the meeting in large numbers.

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