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LAHORE: PML-N leader Maryam Nawaz Sharif has once again reiterated that her father is coming home to join his people and not to settle accounts with political rivals.<\/p>\n
She was addressing a public meeting at Thokar Niaz Beg on Thursday to mobilise supporters to welcome the PML-N supremo Nawaz Sharif upon his return after a self-imposed four-year exile on Oct 21.<\/p>\n
\u201cIn his past tenures, Nawaz Sharif had strengthened the national economy, and the nation progressed,\u201d said Ms Sharif. \u201cThis time, he is coming to [show how to] rebuild the economy.\u201d<\/p>\n
While stating her father won\u2019t take revenge on anyone, Ms Sharif said he would rather bring people together and \u201cmend hearts\u201d.<\/p>\n
\nSays her father spent more time in exile than in power<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
She said that the country and its people suffered after the ouster of the PML-N supremo \u201cthrough a conspiracy\u201d back in 2017.<\/p>\n
Since then, inflation had skyrocketed and the economy continued to deteriorate, she claimed.<\/p>\n
She recalled that the prices of essential items were low during her father\u2019s government and spoke about the other achievements on development and law and order fronts.<\/p>\n
Referring to the PTI\u2019s rule from 2018-2022, she said there had been \u201ca government of jokers\u201d for four years when rulers prioritised political rivalries instead of serving the people.<\/p>\n
She said Nawaz Sharif \u201cis the son of soil\u201d and has neither been imported from abroad nor been launched by someone through \u201cforeign funding\u201d, a reference to the prohibited funding case<\/a> against the PTI Chairman Imran Khan.<\/p>\n
\u201cNawaz Sharif has spent more time in exile than in power,\u201d the PML-N chief organiser said, adding that there had been repeated attempts to eliminate the tiger (PML-N\u2019s election symbol), but these characters themselves became a part of history, while the tiger remained standing unscathed.<\/p>\n
She said that seven years of disappointment among the masses had begun changing into a ray of hope since Mr Nawaz announced his return to the country.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis hope of the masses is rooted in the fact that he had always initiated an era of development in the country, and this time again, he would come up to the expectations of the people.\u201d<\/p>\n