*LAHORE – **From inside jail, former PM Nawaz Sharif is worried aboutPakistani nation, inflation and dollar rate hike.*
*Former prime minister Nawaz Sharif, who is serving seven-year term in KotLakhpat jail, has expressed his concern over an increase in the dollarprice after the International Monetary Fund (IMF) bailout package.*
During a meeting with PML-N leaders on Thursday, he said that the dollarrate should have not been increased after the IMF bailout package. “Thepeople are worried about the inflation and we should become the voice ofthe people,” he said.
Nawaz Sharif asked the party leaders to expedite people-contact campaignand organize the party at the union council level.
To a question about his health, Nawaz Sharif said: “Alhamdullilah, I amfine and observing fasts regularly.”
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Sources said that Ahsan Iqbal has been assigned the task of thepeople-contact campaign. The party leaders briefed him about the country’ssituation.
Meanwhile, PML-N workers planted saplings outside Kot Lakhpat jail forPrime Minister Imran Khan.
MPA Mirza Javed said that PTI workers would sit under the shade of theseplants when they would come to meet Imran Khan.