Electioneering: Should I have handed out guns instead of laptops, asks Shahbaz
PTI information secretary for north Punjab crosses over to PML-N.
PTI information secretary for north Punjab crosses over to PML-N.
RAWALPINDI:
The Punjab president of the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) and former chief minister Shahbaz Sharif hit back at Imran Khan over his criticism on his laptop scheme saying, “Should I have handed over the youth Kalashnikovs instead?”
If the present plight of the country was not a fault of President Asif Ali Zardari, then who is responsible for it, he asked.
Addressing rallies here on Thursday, he said that no ‘Qaroon’ can defeat the ‘Janoon’ of Pakistan Muslim League workers because the conscience of Pakistani voters cannot be bought with dollars and pounds. He said that elections could not be won with TV ads as winning hearts was the key to election success. He said people want the real change, which, he said, his party would bring about successfully.
Shahbaz said Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf’s chief Imran Khan had become a spokesperson for Zardari and should “note that he will not be able to do ball tampering in politics”.
He said that people would not let the conspiracy hatched by ‘the bat and the arrow’ succeed on May 11.
Meanwhile, PTI secretary information for north Punjab and its senior leader in Rawalpindi, Peerzada Rahat Masood Quddusi, announced that he had joined the PML-N. Shahbaz visited his house and welcomed him for formally joining the PML-N. Quddusi said that PTI leadership was not taking political issues seriously and felt he was a misfit in the party.
Some other PTI leaders and former UC nazims, including Abdul Rashid, Haji Arshad and Rabia Basri, also announced they had joined the PML-N.
Published in The Express Tribune, May 3rd, 2013.
The Punjab president of the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) and former chief minister Shahbaz Sharif hit back at Imran Khan over his criticism on his laptop scheme saying, “Should I have handed over the youth Kalashnikovs instead?”
If the present plight of the country was not a fault of President Asif Ali Zardari, then who is responsible for it, he asked.
Addressing rallies here on Thursday, he said that no ‘Qaroon’ can defeat the ‘Janoon’ of Pakistan Muslim League workers because the conscience of Pakistani voters cannot be bought with dollars and pounds. He said that elections could not be won with TV ads as winning hearts was the key to election success. He said people want the real change, which, he said, his party would bring about successfully.
Shahbaz said Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf’s chief Imran Khan had become a spokesperson for Zardari and should “note that he will not be able to do ball tampering in politics”.
He said that people would not let the conspiracy hatched by ‘the bat and the arrow’ succeed on May 11.
Meanwhile, PTI secretary information for north Punjab and its senior leader in Rawalpindi, Peerzada Rahat Masood Quddusi, announced that he had joined the PML-N. Shahbaz visited his house and welcomed him for formally joining the PML-N. Quddusi said that PTI leadership was not taking political issues seriously and felt he was a misfit in the party.
Some other PTI leaders and former UC nazims, including Abdul Rashid, Haji Arshad and Rabia Basri, also announced they had joined the PML-N.
Published in The Express Tribune, May 3rd, 2013.