Observer Report
Lahore
Former prime minister and PML-N supremo Nawaz Sharif on Wednesday said that he has been informed that “someone else” was running the parliament, in lieu of its members. “People tell me that someone else is running the parliament. Other people come and give directions about the day’s agenda and voting on bills etc,” he said while virtually addressing a meeting of the party’s Central Executive Committee.
Nawaz was echoing a sentiment expressed earlier by his daughter and PML-N Vice President Maryam Nawaz, who had said that political decisions should be made in the parliament, not at the General Headquarters.
Nawaz said that he did not want to live in his own country like a “slave” and has decided to live out his life with dignity.
“We have come out of the slavery of colonisers only to be enslaved by our own… we are not free citizens… ask yourself if you are a free citizen. The time is not far away when all these things will have to be accounted for,” he said while addressing a meeting of the party’s Central Executive Committee.
Nawaz said he has decided not to live a life of “humiliation”, adding that if the nation also decides to take a stand against tyrants and oppressors then the real change will come in a few months and weeks, not years.
Referring to Prime Minister Imran Khan, the three-time premier said that the one who has been brought to handle the affairs of the country is “empty-headed.
