several occasions<\/a>, but this is the first time the party president Shehbaz Sharif has officially announced his elder brother\u2019s homecoming.<\/p>\nAll participants of the meeting pledged to give historic welcome to the former prime minister. The party has set an ambitious target of gathering over 200,000 people to receive the elder Sharif at the Lahore airport.<\/p>\n
PML-N\u2019s Lahore president Saiful Malook Khokhar even bragged about gathering over one million people for the party supreme leader\u2019s reception. Contrary to his claim, Mr Khokhar could only manage to gather a few thousands party supporters when Ms Sharif returned to Lahore after spending several months in London early this year.<\/p>\n
Addressing the participants, Ms Sharif said her father would be the candidate for the prime minister\u2019s slot. \u201cI urge the people to give
\nhim the two-thirds majority in the election so that he could change their destiny.\u201d<\/p>\n
She said Nawaz Sharif would overcome price hikes and unemployment.<\/p>\n
\u201cNawaz Sharif has always come up to expectations of the people. He needs a clear mandate from the public this time too to steer the country out of the crisis, Ms Nawaz claimed, adding that good time was coming for Pakistan.<\/p>\n
For the first time in recent years, Ms Nawaz spoke of reconciliation instead of teaching a lesson to her political opponents.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe country needs unity and peace, and not (politics of) vengeance,\u201d she stressed.<\/p>\n
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