Former PM Nawaz Sharif set to return to Pakistan; says his party can set things right
Pakistan after four years, former prime minister Nawaz Sharif on Saturday deplored the «very chaotic» situation back home and expressed confidence that his PML-N party was «competent» to take the cash-strapped country out of the present crisis. The 73-year-old Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) supremo will fly in from Dubai to Islamabad on a chartered plane, former finance minister and PML-N stalwart Ishaq Dar said.
«After staying an hour or so in Islamabad, he will leave for Lahore to address a rally at Minar-i-Pakistan,» Dar told journalists on Friday.
Talking to reporters at the Dubai airport, he deplored the existing situation of the country which in his words was far worse than in 2017 when he was disqualified by the Supreme Court and later convicted by an accountability court in two cases of corruption.
«The situation is not better than 2017...and it pains me to see all this that our country has gone back instead of going forward,» he said, adding that it was time to think about why the country came to the situation.
«The situation in Pakistan is very chaotic and that is very worrying,» Nawaz was quoted as saying by Geo News.
«We are competent enough to solve the problems of the country,» he said before his departure from Dubai airport.
«People are suffering in Pakistan and it is painful but there is hope that we can improve the situation. We created the mess and only we can fix the situation.»
When asked about the elections, he said that the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) was empowered to decide the date of the elections.
