Visited CJP as a faryadi of this country: PM Abbasi

SARGODHA: Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi on Friday said that his party had made efforts to end the gas and electricity deficit in Pakistan. He was addressing the public in Sargodha. "Our government was faced with a lot of issues when we came to power," he said. "Electricity and gas load-shedding were realities that Nawaz told me to tackle when I first became the prime minister." Lashing out at his political rivals, Abbasi said former presidents Pervez Musharraf and Asif Ali Zardari, both, had done nothing to improve the country's condition. He alleged that the former governments had only worked to fill their own pockets, but the Pakistan Muslim League - Nawaz (PML-N) had addressed the issues faced by the country. "We continued on the road to development," he said, adding that those who had created problems for the country were making speeches every day. "Imran has forgotten how he used to lament that Asif Zardari had bought fourteen PTI MNAs. And when the time to elect the chairman of Senate, he voted for Zardari's candidate." He said that he was proud that his party had not spent a single rupee during the Senate elections. Speaking about his meeting with the Chief Justice of Pakistan Mian Saqib Nisar, the prime minister said that he had contacted the former to discuss about issues faced by the country. "My witness is the chief justice," he said. "I don't want to discuss the meeting but I can tell you that we did not discuss any personal issues." "People level allegations that I visited the chief justice as a 'faryadi' [complainant]," he said, "so yes, I did go to him as a faryadi...as a faryadi of this country." He also discussed the upcoming elections in July, stating that the politics of abuse will be buried in the 2018 General Elections.