KASUR: Reiterating that the elected government will complete its five-year constitutional term, Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on Saturday said that his political rivals were out to stall an unprecedented and historic development undertaken by his government to fully transform Pakistan into a stable and prosperous county.
“The people will reject those elements in the 2018 general election as well,” he said while addressing a huge public gathering in Phool Nagar.
“Those political elements wanted to obstruct and sabotage the pace of progress and development, as it had heralded a demise to their political career,” he said. The premier said his political adversaries had realised that if the current wave of fast-track progress and development continued by the PML-N government, it would end their political career by 2018.
Their political demise was imminent, he added. “They want to take revenge from the people, as you have rejected them in the last election. They know that the people will also reject them in 2108 as well.”
He said that “rivals” had not even endured miseries of jail, while he himself had undergone such ordeals in the Attock jail.
“When we were in jails, they were running the dictator’s referendum campaign,” he added. Such elements had now been enjoying the fruits of democracy for which sacrifices were made by the PML-N, other political parties, lawyers and civil society members at that time, he said. Nawaz said that the public mandate had always been ordained by The Almighty, and assured the gather that their elected government would not only complete its recent five-year term but the next five-year tenure too, after the 2018 election.
He said that a new dawn involving his dream of the country’s progress and prosperity had emerged, and announced that 2016 would be far better than 2013.
Pakistan was now economically and financially more stable, with terrorism at the verge of complete elimination, he said.
The PM said that in 2018, Pakistan would also stand distinct in terms of peace, progress and prosperity. He recalled the 18-20 hours of load shedding haunting the country during 2013, and said that power outages had been immensely reduced. “By 2018, the same will end forever.”
