MIRPUR KHAS : Sharifs good cop, Bad cop game continues as Shahbaz Sharifhas yet again tried to defend Nawaz Sharif over Mumbai attacks whilekeeping himself clean of Mumbai attacks controversy.
Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz President Shehbaz Sharif said on Sunday thatformer prime minister Nawaz Sharif’s interview was twisted out of contextby his political opponents.
Nawaz, in a recent interview to a news outlet, had said, “Militantorganisations are active. Call them non-state actors, should we allow themto cross the border and kill 150 people in Mumbai? Explain it to me. Whycan’t we complete the trial?”
In his address at a public rally in Sindhri, Shehbaz said India isconspiring against Pakistan by using Afghan soil.
“Our mothers and sisters are being killed in Kashmir. Almighty has madePakistan a nuclear state. If India casts an evil eye upon Pakistan then thearmy and people of Pakistan will give a befitting reply,” he said.
The Punjab chief minister told the public that Kalabagh Dam won’t beconstructed if the people of Sindh have reservations against it. “We willsacrifice Kalabagh Dam not once but hundred times for Sindh,” he said.
Shehbaz remarked that Pakistan won’t be prosperous if all the fourprovinces of the country aren’t prosperous. “Today all the provinces arereceiving water as per their due right, they (Sindh government) steal yourwater and then blame the federal government,” he alleged.
He said if God gives him an opportunity he will change the fate of Sindhand promised that in the next five years Sindh would progress more than theother provinces.
“We will give interest-free loans. We will build Danish schools andhospitals in every district of Sindh,” he said.
The PML-N leader said that if he is voted in, he will take Karachi at parwith Lahore in terms of developmental works.
Taking a jibe at the Pakistan Peoples Party-led provincial government, hesaid the farmers of Sindh are not even receiving cheap fertilizers whilethe farmers of Punjab are being given interest-free loans.