Former prime minister Nawaz Sharif said on Tuesday the ‘selected’ was made the prime minister in the 2018 elections by doing ‘electoral engineering’.
He said the people of the country had to pay enough price due to the selection of an undeserving individual for the prime ministerial post. when the PTI came to power through an unfair process.
Nawaz Sharif expressed his dismay over the current state of affairs in the country, attributing it to self-inflicted mistakes rather than external factors.
“It’s not India or the US but we are in this position because of our own mistakes which damaged our country,” he said.
Reminiscing about his government’s achievements, Sharif said that the country had overcome challenges such as load-shedding and terrorism by the end of 2016. “The dollar was stable, foreign exchange reserves were at historic high and we achieved a growth rate of 6.2%,” he added.
He continued, “We made efforts to bring down the interest rate from double digits to 5.25%. Export refinancing was at 3%, and our exports were increasing. We bid farewell to the IMF. But now, where have those days gone?”
Lashing out at the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf government’s policies, Sharif said that when Imran Khan came to power, terrorism re-emerged, the value of the dollar soared, and economic growth stagnated.
