Staff Report
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) leader Ahsan Iqbal Sunday advised the Pakistan Tehreek e- Insaf (PTI) leaders to stop its mudslinging campaign and focus its attention and energies on serving people as the country needed national unity at this time.
“PTI has a track record of instigating chaos and blaming others for involvement in electoral rigging”, he said while talking to a Private news channel outside the National Assembly.
He said that the PTI founder will not receive the National Reconciliation Ordinance (NRO), adding, “he must demonstrate his innocence in court.”
He also emphasized political stability, which, he states, is vital for achieving economic stability in the country.
To strive for economic stability, all differences must be set aside, he said adding that there is a need for mutual unity for political and economic stability in the country.
Replying to a question, he said that in the past, the PML-N had set a shining example of economic progress and stability and that it would take concrete and practical steps to further improve the economy.
“The era of Mian Nawaz Sharif was a golden era of progress and prosperity. Under the visionary leadership of Nawaz, we will tread the path of happiness and progress for the country”, he concluded.
Earlier, PML-N leader Ahsan Iqbal said on Friday that it is the responsibility of political parties to work for the progress, prosperity, and development of the country.
Speaking on the floor of the National Assembly, he asked opposition parties to join hands for the country’s prosperity, emphasizing mutual respect and cooperation the path to progress.
Highlighting the achievements of his government in the past, he mentioned the restoration of pace in the country and the end of load-shedding adding that no single party can resolve the current crisis.
He said that political stability is essential for economic growth and called upon all to unite for combating poverty in the country.
Separately on Friday, Atta Tarar said that his party had already emphasised the need for a charter of the economy.
Expressing his thoughts, Tarar took a jibe at the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI), saying, “You [PTI] want to derail the democracy in the country.”
Tarar questioned: “Under which capacity had the letter been penned to the International Monetary Fund (IMF)?”
