Daily Times

Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid Senior Central Leader and former deputy prime minister Chaudhry Pervaiz Elahi has said that due to former PM Nawaz Sharif’s foreign policy, our rivers have dried up, whereas in Punjab, former chief minister Shehbaz Sharif has forced people to drink contaminated water.

Both the brothers have jointly made the people suffer from diseases, he said.

Addressing a joint public meeting of PMLQ and Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf in Gujrat on Saturday, PMLQ Leader Chaudhry Pervaiz Elahi said that shortage of water in Pakistan is only because of the Sharifs. The dry rivers are an established proof of Nawaz Sharif’s foreign policy, one who is not a well-wisher of the country.

He said that Sharif brothers’ “Sheikh Chilli” like projects have surfaced before the people and everyone should ask them as to why Bhasha Dam was blocked for 10 years; a project which we had started. He said those resorting to horse trading are today themselves its victim. Shehbaz Sharif who has been the chief minister for 10 years should tell the people as to what reforms he had introduced in jails that his brother Nawaz is today complaining about.

Former deputy PM Chaudhry Pervaiz Elahi was referring to Nawaz’s complaints about not getting facilities in jail.

“Horse trader Nawaz is being treated in the same manner today which he had been doing with others,” he said.

“We live and die in Pakistan and that is why we serve the people considering it as a national duty. We will not disappoint the people if we got the opportunity in future also,” he said, adding that the country can progress only if the rulers are not corrupt, have fear of Allah and do every work thinking that Almighty Allah is watching them.

“This is the reason that as CM, I had undertaken such works in the history of Punjab and Pakistan which those who have been in the government thrice could not do,” Pervaiz Elahi said.

The public meeting was also addressed by PTI candidate from PP-31 Chaudhry Salim Sarwar Jaura whereas Syed Faryad Shah, Chaudhry Mustansar Ahmad Baanth, Chaudhry Ahmed Ali Baanth and Chaudhry Sajid Lanahika were among those on stage.

Published in Daily Times, July 22^nd 2018.