MUZAFFARABAD, Pakistan: Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on Friday visited Muzaffarabad and during his address to a public gathering, he laughed off the upcoming anti-corruption movement announced by the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) against Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N)-led federal government.
“They will launch the movement only to the size of what they got in AJK general election – just two seats and PML-N got 32,” the prime minister said with a smiling face adding that one could guess as what would be the scale of that movement.
His statement was in reference to Azad Jammu and Kashmir general elections held on Thursday and PTI’s nationwide movement against corruption which according to PTI Chairman Imran Khan, would commence from August 7.
The PML-N achieved a landslide victory in the elections by securing 32 out of 41 seats of the AJK Legislative Assembly whereas the PTI managed to win only two seats.
In his address at University Ground in Muzaffarabad, the prime minister thanked the AJK people for supporting the PML-N and said that the Kashmiri people rejected the ‘culture of negative politics.’
The prime minister also vowed to bring about a revolution of development in Azad Jammu and Kashmir.
Nawaz Sharif assured the charged gathering that the next five years would be exemplary for the development of AJK. He said that the PML-N’s would-be government is going to develop a network of motorways and highways besides spending huge amounts on education and health sectors.
Sharif said the opposition parties heavily criticized him during the election campaign but he did not respond to anyone.
“Performance, not sit-ins bring about success in politics. Thanks God, we are setting a new record of development in Pakistan that is being evidenced by the world. Pakistan has joined the emerging markets,” he remarked.
The Minister for Defence Khawaja Muhammad Asif, Minister for Information and Broadcasting Pervaiz Rasheed, Minister for Kashmir Affairs Barjis Tahir and Special Assistant to PM Asif Kirmani accompanied the prime minister during his visit to Muzaffarabad.
