Shehbaz Sharif calls for ‘fair accountability process’

Opposition leader urges govt to take practical steps on Kashmir issue

LAHORE:

Leader of Opposition in the National Assembly Shehbaz Sharif has stressed the need for having a fair accountability process in the country by abandoning the politics of accusation.

“Pakistan is not financially independent. The biggest blessing to Pakistan is being an atomic power but such a weapon and beggars bowl do not go hand in hand,” said during an event organised in connection with Independence Day.

Shehbaz, who is also the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz president, called for changing such a trend and opting for self-reliance.

“Currently, the government is under so much pressure that it could not even increase the salaries of the working class of the country,” he said and criticised the PTI-led government for inflation.

The opposition leader further urged the government to take practical steps on Kashmir issue as the country “cannot limit itself to lip service”.

Meanwhile, in a statement, he said the country could never become what Quaid-i-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah wanted if “divisive politics polarising the nation, persecution and victimisation in the name of accountability and beggary in the name of economic policy continues.”

Shehbaz said the modern-day battlefield is economic supremacy and countries lose or strengthen their sovereignty by economic independence.