LAHORE, March 25: Pakistan Muslim League (Nawaz) chief Mian Nawaz Sharif opened a two-day meeting of his party’s central working committee on Saturday in London with a bitter denunciation of the present rulers’ policies and their alleged efforts to break up the party.

However, he said, the party had survived all attempts aimed at disintegrating it.

This is the first meeting of the reconstituted CWC after seven years.

He praised all those who had resisted pressure and temptations and refused to switch loyalties. He paid tribute to the late Advocate Iqbal Raad, Pir Binyamin and other party activists for their sacrifices.

PML-N president Mian Shahbaz Sharif also spoke.

The PML-N president told Dawn that the former prime minister would speak again at the conclusion of the meeting on Sunday after discussion on organisational matters.