LAHORE:
Pakistan Muslim League (PML-N) chief Nawaz Sharif on Saturday credited his party for starting a process of change in Pakistan 21 years ago by “freeing the slave economy and facing forces supporting the status quo”.
Sharif was addressing a gathering of members of the National and Provincial Assemblies, office-bearers and workers from the Faisalabad division.
He said that after becoming the prime minister of the country the first time, he started to work on the economic reforms agenda of the PML-N. However, he added, supporters of the ‘old and slave economy’ became active to stop the process of change in a bid to maintain their possession on industries and banks.
They were in favour of having complete control over transfer of foreign exchange and were against modern infrastructure, Sharif said before adding: “but we freed the economy”.
The party chief went on to say that his government constructed airports, seaports and motorways and removed restrictions on foreign exchange.
He further said that they restored the self-respect of Pakistanis working abroad by setting up green channels at airports.
He added that his government gave “these gifts to the nation”, but was toppled three years earlier, before completing its tenure.
“Had our government not been toppled, Pakistan would have been the most prosperous country of the region,” the PML-N chief said.
Further talking about what could have been, Sharif said that there would be no shortage of electricity, industries would not have closed down and there would no unemployment or terrorism.
“If it rains four times, the (current) rulers wander around with begging bowls, whereas we had found a solution through indigenous resources,” he further said.
Sharif went on to say that his government had upheld the dignity of the country’s flag, adding that those who ‘did not accept Pakistan also respected it’.
“What is the change, how it is brought and what price of it is paid, we know better,” Sharif maintained.
Published in The Express Tribune, November 13th, 2011.
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Wel don Nawaz Sharif u r the only hope to save our country and your projects and the people of Pakistan are the witness so u dont worry we are with u, just place your step ahead we are with you....
@ REALIST
i will not go in details but i will give u one example .. a yellow cabs scheme for graduated youngsters ? is this the ecnomic vision of pml n ? and i dont want to go in much detail an educated person like you should be ashamed of your self when the whole of country uis declining and alomost over 50% of population is unemployed and you still cant see any wrong ecnomic policies of these corroupt politicians !!! Shame on you
@Realist
I dont see any logic in you telling me to read that article which i have read and im completely in favour of education research on science etc and when had imran khan ever said he is not promoting education he is going over the world in universties of world class calibre to encourage and show the importance of education and yes he has vision cant you see the namal uni in mianwali which is affiliated with bardford university of england and where pupils are getting degrees for free which would have cast them over 60 lakhs !! and yes i know he has been seen with people like manawar hassan etc but there is a reason behind it pakistan is most polorized nation in the world at the moment and we cant let it get worse we need to concile get people together and work together and in that article they author talking about darwens theory let me tell you there is more scientes whom are against it then those who support it and one of the greatest scientest ever albert einstein has famously said that SCIENCE WITHOUT RELIGON IS LAME AND RELIGON WITHOUT SCINCE IS BLIND !! SO GET YOUR FACTS RIGHT BEFORE CRITISIZING OR ACCUSING SOME ONE AND YES IMRAN KHAN IS EDUCATED THERE NO HIDING IN THAT !!
@Realist. (ORIGINAL): but when was JF-17 completed? during mushraffs time i dont support mushraff just saying
@ Majid Urrehman .. please put the graph of Sharif family wealth with each project. ... lolz you missed development of Taliban and his dream to be make Raiwand capital and himself Amir-ul-Momineen, loss of Kargill when he was trading blood of dollars in DC
Mian saab jaan dio ....go live with Arab shaikhs, poor ppl have a new hope now
@Majid Urrehman: So under Nawaz Sharif J-17 Thunder was made?? Please elaborate!! Stop fooling the public, and stop this disinformation war. Nawaz Brothers have looted Pakistan, say no to Nawz, Shabhaz, Zardari!!
PTI Zindabad Imran Khan Zindabad Pakistan Zindabad!!
@majid
thanks for the laughs.
independent judiciary - have you forgotten the time when pml-n supporters stormed the supreme court? go to like leaks to see pml-n views about independent judiciary.
just adding the word reform after a word is not good enough. did the economic reform increase gdp? did it help the. common man or just pml-n friends in business?
@babar: Enlighten us on wrong economic policies of PMLN. Mistakes to be exact! :)
@babar: Only Hope is imran khan cause hes educated and have some kind of vision
yeah yeah yeah now read this. http://archives.dawn.com/archives/19217
Few of many Achievements of PML(N): Motorway Gawader Port Port Qasim Sandik Project Costal Highway Indus Highway Yello Cab Ghazi Brotha Project JF-17 Thunder Jets Privatisation Banking Reform Economic Reform First Mobile Sector Fastest Agriculture growth 1991-3 Best Relation with Islamic Countries Fastest Economic Growth 1990-3, Asian Tiger Nuclear Test Independent Judiciary Danish Schools Medical Colleges, Educational Reforms Infrastructural Development, Trade Agreements, Aashiana Housing Schemes, Shehbaz Nagar, Rights of Youth, Interprovincial Harmony, NFC Award for other provinces, etc... Still a lot to do for our beloved land...
Support PML(N) Support Pakistan Pakistan Zindabad!!!
The only change this guy brought about was new techniques in corruption.
Get a life PML-N, stop being COPY CATS..
Please start with declaring your assets and paying your taxes......
From the above photo NS looks very scared.
Keep lying Nawaz, we wont believe you.
PTI new face of secular elite. Why Mr.Khan is only targeting PML(N). Why Mushraff sent him gift of a pup. He is new sweet heart of KHAKIS.
HE is failed in past so he is rejected now all this is drama now just cause elections are nearer and secondly PTI is getting popular day by day so they in panic mode .. these people whom have assembled billions and accumilated factories after factories now thinking of ecnomiv reform and ordinary pakistan this all is a BAD JOKE !!! If you look at forbes list of richest people in pakistan him and zardari are in top 3 so they cant talk about making pakistan prosperous and i cant believe when the rest of the world is producing hi tech goods and making technological achievements every other minute and they flipping still going over motorway shows how thick they are these people have no vision !! Only Hope is imran khan cause hes educated and have some kind of vision and no matter how bad they say he is but he still is better then these corroupt fuedels !!
bad joke dude....!!
PTI PTI PTI PTI... nothing more there is hope there is always choice....