Pakistan’s problems cannot be miraculously resolved in 90 days: Sharif

PML-N chief says politicians contending for elections should talk about realistic solutions to people’s problems.

SWAT: “Problems of Pakistan cannot be miraculously resolved in 90 days as claimed by some politicians,” said Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) chief Nawaz Sharif on Wednesday while taking a jibe at Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf’s chairperson Imran Khan.

Khan had said that PTI, once in power, will end corruption in 19 days and terrorism in 90 days.

Sharif was speaking at a rally in Swat with the party’s regional leader, Amir Muqam, where he was present to lay the foundation stone of a kidney centre, which he said, will one day become a full-fledged university, too.

Sharif said that the politicians contending for upcoming general elections should talk about “realistic solutions to solve people’s problems” and termed the promises made by politicians as mere “election gimmicks”.

“I get scared when I think about the problems prevailing in Pakistan at the moment – Karachi is burning, while security situation in Balochistan is on a downward spiral,” he said. “When we [PML-N] come into power, we will make things happen – we have the background to prove our credibility.”

The PML-N leader said that it was only his party that had the “team which was equipped mentally and practically to deal with the problems of Pakistan.”

Sharif said that the politicians should “forget about ruling over people” and said that it was about time that politicians started to serve people. “You [politicians] should enter politics only if you have the intent to serve the people,” he said.

He said that his party, the PML-N, had always considered politics as “a means of serving people.”