Nawaz Sharif speaks to journalists at his farm house in Raiwind on the outskirts of Lahore on May 13, 2013. PHOTO: AFP/ FILE
RAIWIND: Many independent candidates have joined the Pakistan Muslim League – Nawaz (PML-N) on Tuesday, announced PML-N leader Shahbaz Sharif, three days after the party's victory in the general elections.
Hafiz Afzal Karim, Dr Muhammad Afzal Dhandla and other independent candidates joined PML-N, said Shahbaz during a media briefing.
“We are done and dusted with the election campaign. We never criticized any one and now also we will move according to law,” he replied to a question about if PML-N Chief Nawaz Sharif will take oath from President Asif Ali Zardari.
“If some parties cannot digest our win then we also have right to put forth allegations regarding rigging,” he said in response to PML-N’s recent allegation of rigging in NA-125.
Shahbaz ensured the media of good ties in the future.
"We are sure that we will be able to govern the province [Punjab] and Pakistan towards prosperity," Sahhbaz said.
Earlier during the day, independent candidates, Tahir Iqbal and Naeem Bhabha, who won National Assembly seats from Vehari held meetings with the Sharif brothers in Raiwind and announced joining PML-N.
Other successful independent candidates including Siddique Khan Baloch and Abdul Rehman also held talks with the PML-N.
Nawaz Sharif had constituted two high-powered committees on Monday -- one to file a report on the Centre, Balochistan and Sindh, while the second focusing Punjab.
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PML N has proved that this aprty is not a provincial or lingual party. They won from all the four provinces.
Majority of independent candidates always join the leading party in assembly. They like to sit on treasury benches. They can secure more development funds, by joining government. PTI is doing the same in KP. So why to blame PML-N?
Reply to all racist comments against Punjab above!
Punjab is a land which welcomes people of every ethnicity and language. Muhajirs came here after 1947 partition of sub continent, and they consider it their land. They call them Punjabi now, not Muhajirs. People living here are not all Punjabi speaking. Saraiki people are in majority in South Punjab. A lot of Baloch and Pashtoon speaking people also live in Saraiki belt. Mountainous ranges of Punjab are majorly inhibited by Pothohari people. We living in Punjab, love the people of other provinces also. Get above the provincial thinking, have a national outlook.
@all Racits commenters above playing punjab card .. you people r so hate lovers that u deny to see that in punjab punjabis r not the only one ..punjab is our most culturally diverse province muhajir, sindi , balochi pathan r not only living but r on high govt posts here .. n its most populated province so it thats why more NA seats r allocated in PU .. Your leaders hv destroyed ur provinces themselves ..so u r the ones responsible for ur disasters stop putting ur faults on PU.. do we support saii culture in ur province do we stop ur bussiness men to develop bussiness centers there no ...so stop living the dreams of ur own rubbish Electables .... USA became this strong only when all states said "USA IS' not untill they stopped saying "USA are" ..
In the past twenty years Mr. Nawaz Sharif was elected twice and dismissed twice by Pakistan's Presidents in office because of a series of cases of corruption, nepotism and incompetence. As prime minister, during his second term in office, he tried to politicize the military. He ordered the Karachi civil airport not to let a PIA aircraft land. The aircraft was flying back from Sri Lanka and had a sports team, some foreign passengers as well as General Pervez Musharraf on board. This dire incident of blind incompetence triggered a coup by the military. Mr Sharif was tried, convicted and sentenced to ten years in prison by the Supreme Court whose justices had been appointed by Prime Minister Sharif. After spending a number of years in prison he was permitted by President Musharraf to live in Saudi Arabia for the rest of the sentence. He was eventually pardoned by President Musharraf. Mr. Sharif is back in power again for the third time. May Allah bless Pakistan. Only He is the ultimate protector and guardian of us all.
he is not the pm of pakistan. He is the pm of punjab. the figures of his seats tell all
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What was the price of each?
if u are thinking independent then please change the civil law code scrap the old rubbish raj laws and get rid of slave lang to our own lang education system.... make a law according to sheria.
It is unfair that the people (votes) of one province would always determine who would be the PM of the country. How long the other three provinces would bear this?
Mian sb find solution with in,select bureaucracy on merit and depoliticize them as well as police for pure success otherwise opportunist have started cropping forward,be very watchful.
I wish PML N best of Luck...
Same 90's era.
All major parties are now province based. There is no party that can claim true representation in all provinces. So now Pakistan will be ruled by one province. I wonder how long it will take for the provincial cards to be played.
All roads are now going to Raiwind, where the wind is blowing and in rest of the country, the weather is dry and humid.