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HAFIZABAD – A day after Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, the Chairman of the Pakistan People’s Party (PPP), mocked the three-time former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, the leader of the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) joined his party’s election campaign on Thursday.
After maintaining a prolonged silence since his first public appearance on October 21 during his homecoming, Sharif addressed his party’s inaugural election rally in the Punjab town of Hafizabad, just days before the February 8 General Election.
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Political parties are intensifying their election campaigns, presenting various manifestos, making new promises, and showcasing their past performances. Both the PML-N and PPP are vigorously vying for the Prime Minister’s Office, making concerted efforts to sway voters in their favor.
A day prior, Bilawal had quipped that the ‘lion is hiding,’ insinuating that Nawaz Sharif was avoiding direct interaction with the public.
In his opening statements, Nawaz emphasized that his primary objective is to “put Pakistan back on its feet.” He lamented that had he not been repeatedly ousted from power, the country would be among the prosperous nations. Nawaz commended the people of Hafizabad for their warm reception during his visit.
He went on to assert, “I had been ousted from power for not receiving salaries from my son,” while adding, “If our government had completed its tenure, not a single youth would have been unemployed, farmers would have experienced prosperity, power tariffs wouldn’t have surged, and the nation would have been spared from inflation.”
Expressing his belief that Pakistan would have achieved a prominent global status if he had not been ousted from the Prime Minister’s office repeatedly, Nawaz, who returned to Pakistan after almost four years of self-imposed exile in London, declared that his sole “mission” is to revive Pakistan.
During the rally, he promised that, if elected, they would develop Hafizabad to the level of Lahore and connect the district to the motorway network. Nawaz, the longest-serving prime minister, having spent more than 9 years collectively in office, had been elected to the premiership three times in 1990, 1997, and 2013, but never completed a full five-year term.
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