{"id":32942,"date":"2023-12-08T11:05:05","date_gmt":"2023-12-08T11:05:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/pml-n-demands-accountability-not-power-nawaz-sharif\/"},"modified":"2023-12-08T11:05:05","modified_gmt":"2023-12-08T11:05:05","slug":"pml-n-demands-accountability-not-power-nawaz-sharif","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/pml-n-demands-accountability-not-power-nawaz-sharif\/","title":{"rendered":"PML-N demands accountability, not power: Nawaz Sharif"},"content":{"rendered":"

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PML-N supremo Nawaz Sharif on Friday said his party does not desire to win elections and form a government but demands accountability.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe nation should know that those who used to cry \u2018thief\u2019 are thieves themselves, the biggest thieves. [\u2026] This is our demand,\u201d he said at a PML-N parliamentary board meeting in Lahore.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur demand is not to form governments after winning elections and then roam about in big cars,\u201d the former premier stressed, saying that while the PML-N was determined to serve the country, it also wanted the truth to be brought in front of the public.<\/p>\n

\u201cWho ruined the country? Who brought the country to this point today? Why are the poor starving today? [\u2026] All these things are eating up the country. There should be accountability.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are not sitting here to get into government, we want the well-being of the country and the 250 million people living here,\u201d Nawaz asserted.<\/p>\n

\u201cPakistan is going through a tough time today and we have created these difficulties ourselves. We punished the people who wanted to serve the country and brought forth those who were playing an evil game,\u201d he claimed in an apparent reference to ex-premier Imran Khan.<\/p>\n

The PML-N leader, without taking any names, said a person was brought to power who knew nothing about politics, economy or foreign policy. \u201cHe only talked about \u2018Riyasat-i-Madina\u2019 but didn\u2019t know anything about \u2018Riyasat-i-Madina\u2019 in the true sense,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Nawaz went on to say that the \u201cbiggest corruption scandal in the history of Pakistan\u201d was the \u00a3190m case<\/a> and that there was \u201cno doubt about it\u201d.<\/p>\n

The case alleges that Imran and Bushra Bibi obtained billions of rupees and land worth hundreds of kanals from Bahria Town Ltd for legalising Rs50 billion that was identified and returned to the country by the UK during the previous PTI government. Last week, the National Accountability Bureau filed a reference<\/a> in connection with the case.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis biggest evidence is that they waved a sealed envelope [in a cabinet meeting] and asked for signatures on it. At least show us what is inside the envelope [\u2026] but they took approval by putting on blindfolds,\u201d Nawaz claimed.<\/p>\n

He further highlighted that the Supreme Court had recently ordered<\/a> that an amount of Rs35 billion, which was remitted to the apex court\u2019s bank accounts maintained in the name of the SC registrar in the Bahria Town settlement, be transferred to the federal government.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis was a huge theft and corruption,\u201d he said. \u201cOn the other hand, we were sent to jail for not taking salaries from my son.\u201d<\/p>\n

Talking about the cases against him, the PML-N supremo said he got justice after seven years and even today he was visiting courts. \u201cThere is a court certificate that declared these cases bogus. But who registered these cases? Will anyone ask them why they registered these cases?\u201d he demanded.<\/p>\n

Earlier, Nawaz told his party workers that politics was truly about serving the country and doing something for the people.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

PML-N supremo Nawaz Sharif on Friday said his party does not desire to win elections and form a government but demands accountability. \u201cThe nation should know that those who used to cry \u2018thief\u2019 are thieves themselves, the biggest thieves. [\u2026] This is our demand,\u201d he said at a PML-N parliamentary board meeting in Lahore. \u201cOur […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":32943,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/i.dawn.com\/large\/2023\/12\/08143419f050767.png?r=152247","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pakistan"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32942","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32942"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32942\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}