PML-N decides to follow Nawaz’s orders for Azadi march

Shehbaz along with Fazl will soon announce strategy for anti-govt protest

LAHORE: The Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) leadership has decided to implement in letter and spirit former prime minister Nawaz Sharif’s directives regarding the party’s participation in Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-Fazl chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman’s long march.

The decision was taken during a high-level PML-N meeting presided over by Opposition Leader in the National Assembly Shehbaz Sharif.

It was decided that in accordance with Nawaz’s October 16 letter, Shehbaz along with the JUI-F chief would formally announce the strategy soon.

The meeting also discussed the country's economic, political, internal and foreign issues.

It finalised the party strategy for participation in the October 31 Azadi march.

The senior PML-N leaders strongly condemned implicating Nawaz in the Chaudhry Sugar Mills case and the persecution of the Sharif family for the past three decades in the name of accountability which “continues till this day despite no evidence of corruption”.

The meeting pointed out that the Panama Leaks joint investigation team had already conducted an exhaustive investigation into this matter and had found nothing, based on which this case had been registered.

It pointed out that without the resurfacing of undeniable and clear evidence to overturn that previous ruling, launching of any new investigation in this regard was illegal.

“This is not only a blatant violation of law but total disregard and contempt of the judicial process,” they said. “This is nothing but the worst example of political victimisation aimed at pressuring Nawaz into giving up his struggle for the democratic rights of the people of Pakistan.”

The PML-N leaders said Nawaz was making a new history of a relentless, unshakeable struggle for the people of Pakistan with bravery, honour and an iron resolve.

The meeting expressed utmost solidarity with Nawaz on this journey, hailing his persistence in the face of such persecution and victimisation.

The meeting dubbed the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf regime as unqualified and incompetent, and strongly condemned its “anti-people policies and measures”.

It maintained that the country was in its worst-ever economic crisis, worsening unemployment, with the industry paralysed and all engines of growth and employment shut down.

It pointed out that amid this burden of massive taxes upon Pakistanis, the PTI's failure in achieving economic targets had added fuel to the blazing fire of national catastrophe.

Traders, industrialists, workers, teachers and doctors are all on board for the strike over the disastrous management of the clueless regime.

The meeting condemned in the strongest words New Delhi's brutal lockdown and communications blackout in Indian Occupied Kashmir for the past 72 days. It reiterated the support of PML-N and the entire country for their Kashmiri brethren and their right to self-determination. The meeting lauded the great sacrifices of Kashmiris in their struggle for their right to freedom, saying that the PML-N would not back down till the occupied valley got its promised plebiscite.