‘Your time is up’, Shehbaz tells PM Imran at DG Khan rally
PML-N President Shehbaz Sharif is addressing a rally in DG Khan. SCREENGRAB
Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) President Shehbaz Sharif has once again lashed out at Prime Minister Imran Khan-led government over rising inflation in the country, saying that “sea of people is ready to overthrow his government”.
“The sea of people is a testament that your [PM Imran] time is up..You have made the lives of masses miserable with the back-breaking inflation and rising poverty,” Shehbaz said while addressing a rally at DG Khan in South Punjab on Sunday.
Shehbaz, while comparing the last PML-N’s tenure with the incumbent government, said former premier Nawaz Sharif built a number of public welfare projects in South Punjab.
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“We built Danish schools across South Punjab under the leadership of Nawaz Sharif.”
Shehbaz – who is also the Opposition Leader in National Assembly – said that hospitals and universities were also built in various districts of the southern region of the province.
The PML-N president said during the three-year tenure of the PTI government not a single project has been established in South Punjab.
Shehbaz said prices of essential commodities have increased manifold and the poor are unable to afford one square meal a day.
Quoting the Transparency International report, Shehbaz said that corruption has increased in the country during the tenure of the PTI government.
He said PM Imran would label former rulers as “thieves” when prices of petrol and other commodities were increased. “But now petrol and electricity bombs are being dropped on people frequently…”
Shehbaz while rejecting the government’s claims that the economy of the country is progressing said that the rate of inflation is highest in Pakistan compared to the other countries in the region.
“The PTI government has handed over Pakistan to the IMF,” he added.
“This night is not long... stand up and under the leadership of Maulana Fazlur Rehman [PDM chief] take to the streets against inflation and remove the incumbent government,” Shehbaz also said.