ISLAMABAD: Foreign Minister Khawaja Muhammad Asif on Friday said that Leader of the Opposition in the National Assembly Syed Khursheed Shah should have no objection to the going of Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) President and Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif to Saudi Arabia.
He said that the former prime minister had good relations with Saudi Arabia. He said Mian brothers had spent eight years in Saudi Arabia during the period of exile. He said that Mian brothers had businesses and good relations with S Arabia.
He said that Pakistani nation would decide about the next leader of the country in general elections to be conducted in July, 2018. The Pakistan Muslim League Nawaz (PML-N), government under the leadership of Nawaz Sharif had steered the country out of the crisis and resolved the energy issue, he said while talking to a private news channel.
The Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) had pushed the country into darkness during its previous tenure, he said. Khawaja Asif said that Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) could not produce even single megawatt electricity for Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) areas. He said that PTI had been claiming to provide electricity even for other provinces but failed to deliver to the masses while running the government in KP.
The foreign minister said that the people who were promoting the politics of sit-in, could not gain anything because the next elections would be conducted in July. "The people are the real power and they would decide the next leader of the country in 2018 general elections," he said.
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