Lahore (Web Desk): Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) supremo and former prime minister Nawaz Sharif has said that he has “no wish for revenge” and want to steer country out of crisis.
“I am returning to Pakistan after being vindicated with the grace of Almighty Allah,” said Nawaz, who returned to Pakistan on Saturday after spending four years in self-imposed exile in London.
The former PM said his party is in a position to resolve the masses’ woes if elected into power.
Nawaz Sharif said that he never betrayed his supporter nor did he shy from any kind of sacrifice.
He recalled how fake cases were framed against him and his party leaders. “But no one abandoned the PML-N flag.”
The PML-N supremo lamented how the country was in a dire state today but at the same time vowed to redirect Pakistan to the path of growth.
Nawaz further stated that if Pakistan was run on his 1990 economic model, “not a single person would have been unemployed, there would be nothing like poverty […] but today, the condition are so bad that one has to think if they can feed their children or pay electricity bills”. He also clarified that these tough economic conditions weren’t created during the Shehbaz Sharif-led government but traced back to a long time.
Nawaz Sharif was convicted in the Al-Azizia Mills and Avenfield corruption cases in 2018. He served a seven-year imprisonment at Lahore’s Kot Lakhpat jail in the Al-Azizia Mills case before he was allowed to go to London in November 2019 on “medical grounds.”
In February 2020, the then PTI-led government had declared Nawaz Sharif an absconder, and later in the same year, an accountability court had declared him a proclaimed offender in the Toshakhana vehicles reference.
Earlier this week, Nawaz Sharif got legal relief from the Islamabad High Court (IHC) and an accountability court, which ensured his smooth return.
