THIS is the last year of PML-N’s tenure and we are facing unprecedented loadshedding after every two hours, even in the so-called VIP F-sectors. On the other hand, Shahbaz Sharif should have been ashamed of declaring recently at a public meeting that the PML-N government would generate so much surplus electricity that it could be exported to Narendra Modi and that there would be no power outages by the end of this year.

As a result, he claimed that the PML-N would eliminate all political parties in the next general election. There was a recent case in a Lahore hospital where doctors had to conduct an emergency operation with the help of a mobile phone torch. Is this the achievement and performance of the Nawaz government of which he is so proud of? The masses are passing a miserable life under unprecedented sky-rocketing prices, and unprecedentedly high utility bill tariffs and indirect taxes like withholding taxes, surcharges, duties and levies never witnessed before.

As a result, the State Bank of Pakistan has slashed interest rates on savings schemes to their lowest level, thereby depriving the underprivileged segments of society like pensioners, senior citizens and widows of a decent return on their lifelong savings. If people are still willing to vote for the PML-N in the next elections, then they deserve this fate.

Fuad Enver

Islamabad

Published in Dawn, May 24th, 2017