Nawaz promises inflation relief if voted to power

PML-N supremo to leave for Jeddah from Dubai accompanied by Maryam on Tuesday

ISLAMABAD:

PML-N supremo Nawaz Sharif on Sunday pledged to bring down the spiralling inflation rate in the country if his party was voted to power in the upcoming general elections.

Speaking in Dubai with a PML-N UAE delegation, the former premier, who was accompanied by his daughter Maryam Nawaz, said his party would overcome all the problems and difficulties being faced by the people of Pakistan.

The PML-N delegation was led by the party’s UAE president, Ghulam Mustafa Mughal.

Nawaz maintained that his party’s top priorities would include the revival of the country’s economy and bring down the prices of essential goods.

“The PML-N would pull the country out of its economic crisis. It has always brought Pakistan out of its crises and would do so again,” he continued.

The PML-N supremo will leave for Jeddah from Dubai on July 4 (Tuesday), accompanied by Maryam, who is also the party’s senior vice president.
As per the schedule, Nawaz will leave for London from Jeddah on July 10 while Maryam will depart for Pakistan.

During his stay in Jeddah, Nawaz will hold important meetings.

As per reports, the PML-N supremo will meet significant business personalities in Jeddah, including representatives of oil companies.

In a recent meeting with PPP Co-chairperson Asif Ali Zardari and his son party Chairman and Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto Zardari in Dubai, Nawaz and his daughter had discussed the PML-N supremo’s return to Pakistan, date of the upcoming general elections and names for the caretaker set-up.

Recently, the lifelong disqualification of a parliamentarian came to an end in the country as acting President Sadiq Sanjrani gave his assent to the Elections Act (Amendment) Bill, 2023.

The law set the period of disqualification to five years.

The National Assembly passed the bill after it sailed through the Senate earlier.
The bill was moved in the lower house of parliament by Finance Minister Ishaq Dar as a supplementary agenda and it was unanimously approved.

After the acting president’s signature, the immediate beneficiaries of the new law will be Nawaz and Istehkam-e-Pakistan Party (IPP) leader Jahangir Tareen.

Nawaz, the three-time former prime minister, and Tareen, the then secretary general of the PTI, were disqualified for life from holding any public office by the Supreme Court months before the 2018 general elections.

The new law amended Section 232 (Qualifications and Disqualifications) of the Elections Act, 2017 to set the period of disqualification to five years. It said the disqualification period under Article 62 of the Constitution would not exceed five years.

“Disqualification of the lawmaker will be considered for five years where the tenure of the punishment is not specified in the Constitution,” it read.

“The disqualification … will be considered for five years on the orders of the Supreme Court or high courts,” it added.