Lahore: Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz President Shehbaz Sharif said party’s supreme leader Nawaz Sharif was not returning to country to “Seek revenge” but rather to take nation towards prosperity.

Three-time Prime Minister of country is scheduled to return to country on October 21 which would mark an end to his three-year self-imposed exile in London.

In scathing remarks last month, Nawaz singled out influential figures, including former Army Chief General (retd) Qamar Javed Bajwa, ex-ISI chief Lt-Gen (retd) Faiz Hameed and former Chief Justices Saqib Nisar and Asif Saeed Khosa as well as Justice Azmat Saeed and Justice Ijazul Ahsan, fiercely labelling them as “Criminals of Pakistan”.

“Nawaz Sharif is not returning for revenge. Although everyone knows culprits behind injustices suffered by him,” Shehbaz, who is considered closer to military establishment said addressing party workers here.

“As worker of Nawaz Sharif, I will stand with him in this fight.” He said that Nawaz Sharif ended 20-hour-long power outages country had been experiencing in 2013, bringing an end to chronic electricity crisis in just four years.

“There was no inflation during tenure of Nawaz but in 2018, historical rigging and manipulated elections took place which deprived public of progress and happiness,” he added.

Shehbaz said that Nawaz Sharif was not removed from power, but path of public development and prosperity was obstructed. He expressed hope that Nawaz will return to country on October 21, saying that PML-N will resume path of progress where it was disrupted. “Give Nawaz Sharif historic welcome to acknowledge injustices rendered to him,” he concluded.

Published in The Daily National Courier, October, 05 2023

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