{"id":51258,"date":"2024-01-23T03:24:04","date_gmt":"2024-01-23T03:24:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/nawaz-seeks-votes-for-economic-overhaul\/"},"modified":"2024-01-23T03:24:04","modified_gmt":"2024-01-23T03:24:04","slug":"nawaz-seeks-votes-for-economic-overhaul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/nawaz-seeks-votes-for-economic-overhaul\/","title":{"rendered":"Nawaz seeks votes for \u2018economic overhaul\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"
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MANSEHRA: Former prime minister Nawaz Sha\u00adrif on Monday urged the people of Mansehra to vote for his PML-N so that he could overhaul the economy and put the country back on path to development.<\/p>\n

Addressing an election gathering in the city, from where he is running for a National Assembly seat, Mr Sharif described himself as the \u201cchampion of dev\u00adelopment and prosperity\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cI am glad to stand among you for the first time since 2013, this decade-long separation is nothing less than an agony for me, and for you as well. However, my pleasure is eclipsed by sorrow when I see the enormous challenges this great country is facing on its economic and other important fronts,\u201d said the PML-N supreme leader at the rally held at Thakra Stadium.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf five judges of the apex court had not expelled me from the Prime Mini\u00adster\u2019s Office, I could have made this country\u2019s economy viable to absorb shocks,\u201d he said, adding that the US dollar which he had left at Rs104 has gone out of control now.<\/p>\n

The former prime minister listed the mega development projects launched by his government in Hazara and the rest of the country, saying the Hazara motorway was a big relief for the commuters as it allowed them to reach the federal capital in less than two hours.<\/p>\n

\u201cI am here today not to become prime minister. I am here to contest elections [from NA-15] and seek your vote,\u201d he said, asking people to elect him to the National Assembly for the prosperity and development of the country and KP.<\/p>\n

Without naming PTI founder Imran Khan, the former premier said the economy was shattered when a \u2018liar fraudulently\u2019 assumed the Prime Minister\u2019s Office.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was in jail and then in London when this country was being plundered\u2026 [had I stayed in power], I would have completed the Lahore-Karachi motorway which is stalled in Sukkur,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

He also sought people\u2019s support in overhauling the economy so that he could put the country on the path of development.<\/p>\n

Nawaz Sharif said he would link the Hazara Motorway to Gilgit-Baltistan via Mansehra-Naran-Jalkhad road if elected to power.
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\u201cIf I came into power no youngster would be unemployed, and poor segments of the society would receive electricity, natural gas, and even vegetables at subsidised rates,\u201d Mr Sharif claimed.<\/p>\n

He claimed that he had refused to form a coalition government in KP in the 2013 elections after JUI-F chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman approached him with an offer to form a joint government in the province. He said he gave the PTI a chance to form the government instead and added that PTI ruined the economy during its 10 years in power.<\/p>\n

Maryam Nawaz also addressed the gathering saying she was glad to experience that despite the \u201cshivering cold a huge crowd showed up here to welcome Nawaz Sharif\u201d.<\/p>\n

Ms Nawaz said PTI failed to launch any mega development projects during its ten-year tenure in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. PML-N leaders Sardar Mohammad Yusuf, Amir Muqam and Mohammad Safdar, were also in attendance.<\/p>\n

Published in Dawn, January 23rd, 2024<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n