Nawaz questions fate of Naya Pakistan pledge

PML-N Quaid promises development in K-P if voted to power

MANSHERA:

Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) Quaid Nawaz Sharif on Monday took a swipe at the state of affairs in the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province, asserting that those who left the country in a state of disarray were the ones who had initially disrupted it.

He questioned the outcome of the promised ‘Naya Pakistan’ by PTI founder Imran Khan.

The three-time former premier blamed the province’s citizens for voting the PTI in.

He accused them of “bringing in a person who spoiled the country”.

“What do the people of K-P say? Did the province progress? Has ‘Naya Pakistan’ been made?” he asked.

Addressing a rally in K-P’s Mansehra, Nawaz asked those who were in attendance that what happened to ‘Naya Pakistan’ promised by the PTI founder.

He then promised a slew of development projects in K-P if his party was voted to power on Feb 8.

He revealed that in the 2013 general elections, he had denied Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-Fazl (JUI-F) chief

Maulana Fazlur Rehman’s request to form a coalition government with him out of respect for the PTI’s number of seats.

The PML-N supremo asked the crowd that what changes had the party brought in K-P after ruling the province for a decade.

“You people of K-P fell in the trap of this deceiver too? You voted his government in. Even though I was the prime minister, but the chief minister was someone else. Did [they] bring about any change in K-P?” Nawaz asked.

He said that the PLM-N would have again formed government in 2018 had he not been ousted before the completion of his five-year tenure.

“Mansehra should have become the best city of K-P,” Nawaz said. “If the five judges had not removed me from power, there would have been an airport in this city. The previous government did not even build the motorway beyond Sukkur. Respectable transport is the right of the people. We will build a college, medical college, and university here. Mansehra’s water issue will be resolved by routing supply from Shogran.”

He said, “The people of K-P will be provided gas, vegetables, and petrol at cheaper rates, along with employment in the province.”

The PML-N supremo announced projects like an airport, train from Karachi to Mansehra, and motorway connecting the city to Balakot, Kaghan, Naran, Chilas and Babusar if he came to power.