ISLAMABAD: Minister for Railways Sheikh Rasheed Ahmed, while speaking to alocal news programme, said that he considers the opposition’s All PartiesConference (APC) as a failure and that former prime minister Nawaz Sharifwill now seek asylum abroad.
The minister said that the former prime minister shut all doors for hisreturn to Pakistan after his address at the moot. The Pakistan MuslimLeague-Nawaz (PML-N) leader had spoken against the current government andprime minister, calling it a “failure of democracy”.
Speaking to the APC via video-link from London, Nawaz’s address centred oncriticising the government of Prime Minister Imran Khan, and he spoke onthe “poor state” of Pakistan’s economy, “deteriorating” internationalrelations, “muzzling” of media and “corruption within the PTI”.
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“This is the principle of democracy in the world: when democracy is hit,the entire democratic system becomes meaningless,” he had said. Nawaz wenton to comment that the root cause of problems being faced was that thecountry had been deprived of true democracy. “The Constitution says thatthe opinion of people should be respected, which is the real spirit ofdemocracy,” he had lamented.
