Sharifs patronised land mafia, says Pervaiz Elahi

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LAHORE: Punjab Assembly Speaker Chaudhry Pervaiz Elahi has said the Sharif brothers are patrons of land mafia as their party deprived the poor of their properties.

Talking to reporters in the Punjab Assembly here on Wednesday, Mr Elahi said Shahbaz Sharif ruined departments during his 10-year tenure as chief minister.

He said credit went to the chief justice of Pakistan because he exposed corruption of the PML-N government.

Earlier in a meeting with Chief Minister Usman Buzdar at the assembly chamber, Mr Elahi said the province was vandalised during the last tenure of the PML-N in power.

He regretted that welfare projects initiated by the PML-Q government were stopped because Shahbaz Sharif had made it an issue of his personal ego. Because of such attitude, the general public suffered, he added.

Published in Dawn, October 4th, 2018

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Optimitic

Oct 04, 2018 10:26am

Fair enough. Why PTI MNA and MPA caught protecting Mansha Bom?

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SHAHID SATTAR

Oct 04, 2018 10:27am

And during your reign of power, you were the pious of the lot, never facilitating any one who came to you for any favours except those who were needy and begged for the food.

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Gen Pasha ret.

Oct 04, 2018 11:31am

So why are you speaking up now? - what were you doing when this was happening - were you asleep?

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Apache

Oct 04, 2018 11:50am

absolutely right!

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Sodomite

Oct 04, 2018 12:19pm

Novice Buzdar will bulldoze what is left!!

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Saif Zulfiqar

Oct 04, 2018 01:25pm

Nawaz patronised all the branches of mafias of the country. Now he is in jail and his younger brother Shahbaz has taken his responsibilities

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Farhan

Oct 04, 2018 01:44pm

You were doing the same stuff Unfortunately the country needs surgical removal of these people. They come with different names but their fabric is same.

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Alba

Oct 04, 2018 04:16pm

Chaudhry Pervaiz Elahi is a stand up guy.

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Alba

Oct 04, 2018 04:23pm

@Gen Pasha ret. ...... Better late than never. It seem very evident to me that when the Sharifs were in power he was intimidated and would have lost his job it he spoke out. Who would take care of his family if that happened? He was supposed to sacrifice his whole career and his whole life for widows and orphans? Think man! He is acting on his conscience now that he is safe.

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M. Saeed

Oct 04, 2018 04:30pm

Speaker is supposed to be a neutral person.

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Ahsan Gul

Oct 04, 2018 09:01pm

Totally agree with you Mr. Elahi. We had last 15 worst years of governance in Pakistan. We are with Pakistan and without it we have no homeland. Public depends on you guys to save us from corrupt and money laundering politicians. Respectfully

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Akhtar

Oct 05, 2018 08:50am

@Saif Zulfiqar Nawaz is out of jail and will be exonerated from all the cases, InshAllah!

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