LAHORE - Top Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz leader Shahbaz Sharif has appealed to people to sink their differences concerning general elections and work hand in hand for a progressive and self-reliant Pakistan.
“We all have to work together for welfare and well being of our people,” said the former Punjab chief minister during his talks with various delegations at his Raiwind residence on Monday.
Shahbaz, who is set to become chief minister of Punjab for the fourth time, refuted vote-rigging allegations in the province, saying these were baseless. “Even the people (of Pakistan) have refused to accept all such assertions,” he contended as he advised election losers to review their policies and attitude towards the general populace instead of resorting to false charges.
Shahbaz, who carried out record public welfare projects in his last term as the chief minister of the country’s largest province, held the view that no single party could call itself a true public representative group until it tended to the needs of the common man, who has to travel by bus as a clerk, starve on power as a shopkeeper, work in fields like poor farmer, and continue to live in misery like millions of the downtrodden.
The N-League leader told the delegates that the projects, like metro bus service, laptops distribution scheme, Ashiana housing scheme and Ujala programme, were aimed at making the common man the major beneficiary of national resources.
Not only the scope of these projects would be widened, but various new schemes, including national health insurance policy, would also be introduced, Shahbaz said indicating his intent to unveil a series of benefits for the common man by incoming provincial government.
“Now when people have given the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz a fresh mandate; it is my utmost desire that the people of Pakistan work hand in hand for nation building, and a strong and prosperous Pakistan,” remarked the ex-chief minister.