ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif said on Friday that politics of strikes and sit-ins was against the progress of the country.

Speaking at the launch of the PM’s Laptop Scheme here at the Convention Centre, he asked political parties to let the PML-N government complete its agenda of development. “Stop leg-pulling and let us work for five years. Let Pakistan move forward. Let Pakistan progress.”

The premier said that politicians calling for staging protests against the government in the name of revolution were actually pushing the country back to the era of darkness and misery.

The PML-N government, he said, was working for ‘real revolution’ by making the youth of the country part of development process.

He asked the youth to stand with those who wanted to take the country towards prosperity, and not with those who wanted the nation to plunge into darkness.

He said the government was working with the determination to end loadshedding and work had been initiated on mega development projects like Lahore-Karachi Motorway and Pakistan-China trade corridor.

Minister for Finance Ishaq Dar and Chairperson of PM’s Youth Programme Maryam Nawaz Sharif also spoke on the occasion.

Published in Dawn, June 21st, 2014