*ISLAMABAD: Senior leadership of the PML-N has advised party supremo NawazSharif to return to Pakistan to take control of the matters as the partyfaced a blowback after losing control of Punjab province to rival PTI. *
According to sources having knowledge of discussions within the party, thesenior PML-N leadership have made contact with Nawaz Sharif and mulled overways to restore the standing of the party in the country, especially inPunjab province.
“The senior leaders advised Nawaz Sharif to return to Pakistan and lead theparty,” they said, adding the meeting reached a consensus that the partylost in by-polls owing to worst economic conditions and inflation.
Moreover, the performance of the PML-N federal ministers was also reviewedduring the meeting and Nawaz Sharif directed the leadership to stayconnected to party leaders and activists.
Recently during a meetinglinkofthe PDM, PML-N leader Nawaz Sharif lambasted Finance Minister Miftah Ismaildue to the ongoing economic turmoil in the country.
The Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM) meeting was held on July 28.
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According to sources, the PML-N leader Nawaz Sharif took to Miftah Ismailover the Dollar hike since the PML-N-led government took charge. Miftah hadclaimed that the Dollar would rise only Rs 23, but apparently, Rs 23 and Rs55 are the same to him, Nawaz Sharif said.
Sources say that the three-time Premier asked Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharifto summon a meeting of all ally parties.
The Finance Minister should take all allies into confidencelink regarding the deteriorating economicconditions, he added. The PML-N leader said that if they have to governthen they will have to be brave.
