Election canvassing: Nawaz vows to end country’s miseries

Says PPP has no right to ask for votes as its govt gave people ‘nothing but misery’.

ABBOTABAD:

PML-N chief Mian Nawaz Sharif has promised to provide gas and water to deprived villages, construct motorways, railway lines and establish universities to enable higher education if his party was voted to power in the upcoming polls.

Addressing separate election rallies in Havelian and Murree on Sunday, Nawaz said that dictatorship had always brought great harm to the country and had never allowed his government to complete its constitutional term, disrupting the flow of development that his party had launched. He maintained that corruption and bad governance had left the country with its worst power crisis, terrorism and inflation.

“There has been no considerable improvement in the country since we left it 16 years ago, the situation has worsened instead,” he said adding that President Asif Ali Zardari’s government had hardly done anything for the betterment of people of Pakistan during the last five years.

Nawaz said the Pakistan Peoples Party government introduced corruption and lawlessness, and exposed the country to terrorism.

“They have no right to ask people for their votes as they have done nothing but gifted the nation miseries.”

Talking about development in Hazara, he said steps would be taken to provide people with basic facilities.

“We will provide gas to all villages of Havelian, Sherwan and Galiyat, construct a motorway from Abbottabad to Khanjrab and establish Havelian University,” he promised, adding that his party would arrange bank loans for the youth to end unemployment and promote entrepreneurship.

He also said that his party would construct a railway line from Islamabad to Muree and provide gas and water to Murree’s adjoining areas.

Promising a better future for Pakistan, he said that if voted to power his government would overcome the problem of load-shedding and transform the country into a prosperous state.

Accusing Imran Khan of using derogatory remarks against him, Nawaz said that he did not use indecent language against his competitors. In a jibe directed at the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf chairman, the PML-N chief said he made Pakistan the seventh nuclear power in the world instead of just playing cricket.

Published in The Express Tribune, April 29^th, 2013.