SWAT: Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) provincial president Amir Muqam said here on Wednesday that his party would win the February 8 elections to begin a new era of development, peace and prosperity.

He was addressing a public meeting in Sangota wherein Pakistan Peoples Party leader Sultan Gujjar along with his supporters and senior vice president of Awami National Party for Shangla district Shamsur Rahman joined PML-N along with hundreds of other people.

Mr Muqam said that PML-N would come to power with the help of voters to resolve the issues of the area and remove sense of deprivation among its people. He added that there was no need for making false and empty promises.

“We have already taken the country out of the quagmire of problems. Now under the leadership of Nawaz Sharif, PML-N will drive the country out of the existing issues,” he said. He said that their opponents showed poor performance during their rules and could not compete with PML-N.

“We have entered the field to end price hikes, inflation, poverty, unemployment and lawlessness,” said Mr Muqam. He said that PML-N would bring economic and political stability to the country by forming a government in provinces, including Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, and in centre after the upcoming elections.

He said that PML-N workers should launch a door-to-door campaign to convey the message of Nawaz Sharif to people. He said that PML-N was not responsible for price hike and inflation but those, who made anti-people agreements with International Monetary Fund (IMF).

“Everyone knows that under the leadership of Nawaz Sharif Pakistan got rid of IMF in 2016,” said Mr Muqam. He added that it was agenda of his party to steer the country out of difficulties.

He said that on May 9, an anti-state group attacked Pakistan and state institutions. “The same group has ruled Khyber Pakhtunkhwa for nine years and bankrupted the province. The infrastructure of the province, including health and education, has been destroyed,” he alleged.

The PML-N leader said that people would reject Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf as they had come to know its reality.

The new entrants to PML-N also addressed the gathering. They showed complete confidence in the party and its provincial president.

Published in Dawn, January 11th, 2024