Indicating that it has already prepared a plan B to ensure tꩵhat Nawaz Sharif becomes the prime minister of Pakistan for a record fourth time, a senior PML-N leader has said that if there are legal hurdles for this, the party will remove them if voted back to power.
Pakistan is going to the polls on February 8.
The 73-year-old Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) leader Sharif returned to Pakistan from London on October 21 after four years of self-imposed exile. After his arrival, the Islamabad High Court (IHC) restored Nawaz's appeals against his conviction in the Avenfield Apartments and Al-Azizia corruption cases but did not fix any date for the hearing. Nawaz has b⭕een on protective bail.
Besides, th🅰e three-time prime minister is ꩵalso facing disqualification till 2028 to contest polls in which he also needs a clean chit from the court.
PML-N Punjab president Rana Sanaullah on Saturday said that if there are legal hurdles impeding Nawaz's accession to the Prime Minister’s Office for a fourth term, the party will remove t🐻hem after coming into power, the Express Tribune newspaper reported on Sunday.
"With a stop-gap arrangement in mind, the PML-N seems to have prepared a plan B for ensuring🎶 that its supremo (Nawaz Sharif) becomes the premier for the fourth time," the report said.
Earlier, PML-N remained confident that there would be no legal impediments for Nawaz to become the prim♊e minister yet again, and given the kind of concessions extended out to him, it appeared to be a likely possibility.
Ho🐈wever, Sanaullah’s admission of a plan B has revealed that the party might not be all that confident about the prospects of the court cases again🎉st Nawaz, it said.
Sanaullah said PML-N hoped that “frivolous” cases against Nawaz must be heard expeditiously and decisions should be delivered at the earliest. He added that if th🍬ere were any hurdles, the party’s decision about Nawaz becoming the premier would still remain unchanged.
To a question about any strategy to avoid confrontation with the ‘powerful circles’ to ensure Nawaz completed his fourth term as the premier, the PML🉐-N Punjab chie♏f said the party never had any issue with them in the past as well.
Meanwhile, PML-N Information Secretary Marriyum Aurangzeb exuded confidence and s🧜aid her party’s political rivals can see that Nawaz will become the primeꦺ minister after the February 8 elections.
꧑Addressing a press conference in Lahore on Sunday, the former federal minister said the PML-N’s manifesto will be to pওrovide relief to the people in the cash-strapped country.
“We have to rise above our personal interests. Our political rivals can also see that Nawaz Sharif will become the nex🍒t prime m🌳inister,” Marriyum said.
-With PTI Input
