PML- N supremo Nawaz Sharif has separated himself from” negative commentary” about his younger brother and Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, expressing hope that the premier would steer the country out of the grueling circumstances facing the country presently, media reports said.
” The negative commentary attributed to me about PM Shehbaz Sharif are deceiving and incorrect,” Nawaz said in a late-night tweet on Thursday, without evolving what comments he was pertaining to, Dawn reported.
The former Prime Minister added that he remained hopeful that” sincere and inexhaustible sweats by’ SS'( Shehbaz Sharif) under the most grueling circumstances will bear fruit and he’ll steer the country out of the mess created by Imran Khan”.
Nawaz’s explanation comes amid suggestions of an internal rift within the party, Dawn reported. Signs of the purported disunion were visible as early as May, lower than two months into the PML- N coalition coming to power following the ouster of former high minister Imran Khan through a no- confidence vote.
PML- N Vice President Maryam Nawaz, who was formerly seen as the party supremo’s heir at law apparent, had openly championed at a May 19 rally in Sargodha Imran’s demand for fresh choices while the new coalition setup was floundering in the face of an profitable extremity.
At the Sargodha rally, Maryam had been of the view that it was wiser to conclude for fresh choices than burden the millions with price hikes.
Maryam’s reflections had come a day after the ruling coalition decided to complete its term, which ends in August 2023.
More Lately, there were reports of Nawaz Sharif being upset over the PML- N’s loss in the pivotal by- pates on 20 seats of the Punjab Assembly- a defeat that paved the way for his party to lose the country’s most vibrant fiefdom to the PTI, Dawn reported.
Shehbaz’s son and Punjab’s embattled Chief Minister at the time, Hamza Shehbaz, left for London before this month to reportedly give an explanation to Nawaz Sharif for the PML- N’s loss in the by- pates and him losing the CM’s office to Parvez Elahi, the common seeker of the PTI- PML- Q alliance.
” Hamza will have to satisfy his uncle for his poor performance being the CM and his father’s defective strategy in the face of Khan’s aggressive crusade during the by- pates,” a PML- N bigwig told Dawn.
Guess about rifts in the PML- N set up farther ground after the Shehbaz government blazoned yet another increase in the price of petrol on August 15.
Following the rise, Maryam twittered that Nawaz had explosively opposed the decision and indeed said he could not burden the people further and that he wasn’t in favour of the decision.
