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.


Sidrah Moiz November 28, 2012
Pakistan’s problems cannot be miraculously resolved in 90 days: Sharif

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.”

COMMENTS (59)

Zubair | 11 years ago | Reply Pakistan’s current problems are structural. Even if the PPP is replaced with some other party at the federal level and in provinces, the performance of the government is not expected to improve significantly. Pakistan’s problems are so complex that no single party can address them. There is a need of developing a broadly based consensus among most political parties pertaining to the economy, trade and investment, religious extremism and terrorism. These problems cannot be addressed effectively unless all major political parties join together for that purpose. If they continue to fight, there is no end to the agony of Pakistan. No political party has a properly “cut-out” strategy for resolving Pakistan’s problems. The major parties must tone down their partisan discourse on the economy, religious extremism and terrorism and adopt a shared approach. The current debate that combating terrorism is not “our” war and that the Taliban are angry because Pakistan supports the US in the region is a misplaced debate.
Clear Black Bag | 11 years ago | Reply

Honesty,sincerity,devotion,dedication,unity and hard work always play the most important role to resolve the problems but unfortunately Pakistani leaders don't have these above mentioned qualities and features to resolve the Pakistan's and its nation's problems this is why they only claim verbally and give days and dates regarding the resolving the problems and whoever has the above mentioned qualities and features and says that I can do so he/she is always criticized badly instead of showing for him/her helpful and co-operative hands and attitudes and Imran Khan is facing the same situation from the other politicians......

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