Looters too have joined sit-in group: Shahbaz

LAHORE: Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif said the politicians, who had looted national resources, were also supporting the sit-in group, adding that the opponents were afraid of rapid development in the country.

He was talking to MNAs Pervaiz Malik, Asadur Rehman and Khalid Javed Warraich and MPA Mehmood Qadir Khan who called on him on Saturday.

The chief minister said those, who resorted to a new jugglery daily and were trying to cause damage to the people, should mend their ways.

Efforts were made in the past too to damage the development process in the country through sit-ins, lockdown, civil disobedience and protests, but the common man distanced himself from the politics of violence and protest, and foiled negative designs of such elements from general elections to by-polls and local government elections, Shahbaz said.

He said unfortunately, Imran didn’t learn any lesson from the repeated defeats and the history would record his name among those who conspired against development and prosperity in the country.

Shahbaz said the people were annoyed by the elements blocking progress in the country. They should stop playing with the fate of the people of Pakistan and let the country progress, he stressed. 

He said Imran should look around and he would see those who had got hefty loans written-off and grabbed land.

He said the person responsible for the criminal delay in Nandipur Power Project due to loot and plunder had taken refuge in the "accountability party", adding that one party gave darkness to the country due to its corruption and the other obstructed power projects through protests.

He said the main objective of those levelling allegations against the elected leadership was to hinder the development process in the country. The opponents of the progress must realise that every trick of their negative politics had failed, the chief minister added. He remarked that the father of a political child had broken all records of corruption in the country.

Shahbaz said those got loans of billions of rupees written-off and pretending to be aristocrats should also be brought to justice.

He stressed the need for a comprehensive accountability of those involved in the loot of national resources and said the baseless allegations levelled against the leadership of the PML-N were not even a remotely link to reality and the stories of lies had been fabricated by the liar politicians.

"Our opponents are afraid of the four-year successful period of PML-N government,” he said, adding that they were frightened that elimination of loadshedding by the PML-N government would end their politics. He said that politics of those who damaged the national economy would be wiped out in 2018 elections.

The chief minister said Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif had put the country on the road to progress and prosperity, adding that the people would not be hoodwinked by these jugglers.