MURREE: Former prime minister Nawaz Sharif on Thursday promised the residents of Punjab’s only hill station that he would take up their issues with Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi.

The ousted PM, who arrived at his Kashmir Point residence in Murree following appearing before an accountability court the previous day, interacted with people from the constituency and said that God willing, the country would remain on the path to progress.

“We have provided employment to the unemployed and will continue to do so,” he said, speaking to journalists and workers of the local PML-N chapter outside his residence before departing for Islamabad.

When the PML-N workers complained about the slow pace of work on a gas supply project in UC Nambal, Mr Sharif assured them that he would take up the issue with Prime Minister Abbasi, who is incidentally the elected representative of Murree.

Mr Sharif’s daughter Maryam Nawaz also accompanied him.

Tweeting about the visit, she said: “Locals gathered outside our Murree house to catch [a] glimpse [of Nawaz Sharif]. Having breakfast we heard loud chants of ‘Mian Sb I love you’. Stopped to thank [them].”

Published in Dawn, November 17th, 2017