Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) President and Punjab Chief Minister (CM) Shehbaz Sharif Saturday said that the performance of the PML-N remained outstanding during the last five years and transparency, speed and honesty were the hallmark of his party’s government.
Addressing district and divisional coordinators of the PML-N, Shehbaz said that the general elections were approaching near and all office-bearers of the PML-N should continue working with dedication and hard work.
He called for across-the-board accountability to move Pakistan forward instead of “selected accountability”. The chief minister said the PML-N government had done extraordinary works during the last five years and the five year term of the PML-N government was all about honesty, speed, and dedication.
He said that unprecedented results had been achieved under the leadership of Nawaz Sharif and the “history will remember our period as the golden era”.
“Power projects have been installed in Pakistan with transparency at the fast pace and I have never seen such transparency and fast speed of development projects during my political career.”
He criticised his political opponents, especially PTI, and held them responsible for delay in development projects, particularly the Orange Line Train Project. He said accountability should be done across the board, because selected accountability could not move Pakistan forward. He said that persons and officers who have done extraordinary work should be praised otherwise they would be discouraged.
“We saved an amount of Rs 75 billion in Orange Line Train Project. Our political opponents wasted the time of the people but PML-N did hard work for the service of the public. We did hard work for the sake of the development of Pakistan and resolved the crisis of load shedding and terrorism,” he claimed.
The chief minister said decisions taken under the leadership of Nawaz Sharif were producing positive results. He gave Pakistan Army credit for success in the war on terror. “We have to make Pakistan a developed and prosperous country through our collective hard work, not through differences.”
Speaking on the occasion, PML office-bearers and lawmakers said that the PML-N would again win the upcoming general elections. They said that development works carried out by Shehbaz speak about the performance and vision of the PML-N leadership. They said historic measures had been taken in the fields of health and education.
Published in Daily Times, May 20th 2018.
