PPP, PML-N feel ‘dumped’ after defeat

 Senator Mustafa Nawaz Khokhar's coalition was deprived of public support.

19 July 2022

                                                                           I am Javed Latif. Image: File

Lahore:Wary of a rude wake-up call on its own home turf, the ruling coalition appeared to be taking a page out of its old playbook on Monday as it lashed out at the "powers that be" that do not protect it. Important stakes in the by-elections of Punjab

Addressing a news conference, PML-N MNA Javed Latif apparently delivered a difficult double-edged message that the PML-N-led government's "tough decisions" weighed on the polls and the party's results. Accepted - but so did the "state". . Do not appreciate the "sacrifice" of Muslim League (N).

"If repeated decisions about the country's destiny are made behind closed doors, it will not bode well for the country's future," the PML-N leader warned.

The PML-N leader's misgivings came a day after the PTI's comeback in the high-stakes 20-seat Punjab Assembly polls brought a huge influx into enemy territory, as it defeated its rival Muslim League-Nawaz. Pierced through some of the pockets of the League (N). The party's home ground

By winning the Bellwether province with a huge margin, the PTI not only paved the way to take back the reins of the heartland from Chief Minister Hamza Shahbaz, but also set the course for triggering a domino effect for the shaky federal government.

Although the PML-N immediately expressed its willingness to play by Queensberry's rules and accept defeat gracefully, the setback apparently sent it into an agonizing cycle of self-doubt, self-doubt and recrimination. It has been put in the throat of the process.

Pamalin Batalid

Speaking during the conference, Latif highlighted the numerous "discriminatory actions" taken against party supremo Nawaz Sharif whose services to the country, he said, were "thankless".

He lamented that the exiled Supreme Leader "who endured the hardships of prison and strengthened the national defense" was declared a "hijacker" while Imran Khan, who was flaming against the institutions, was given breath in the cases. have been

He further alleged that PTI chief Imran surpassed even Nawaz Sharif in criticizing the state institutions and named persons after his dismissal. He appealed to stakeholders not to take decisions based on their "ego", adding that if someone "decides to put us in jail today, the nation will not accept it".

Imran Khan is saying that judges and generals take decisions behind closed rooms, so were these decisions not against Nawaz Sharif and Maryam Nawaz?

"Government lost, Nawaz Sharif's excuse."

Latif also stressed that the return of Nawaz Sharif is crucial to save the country from crises which he said would deepen at the political center after the results of Sunday's by-elections.

Nawaz Sharif will also have to tell the 'whole truth', he stressed and warned that if the Muslim League (N) decided to "tell the public the whole truth with facts", the opposition would be in deep trouble.

High Syed Tha court verdicts against Nawaz Sharif and Maryam Nawaz were "beyond love".

"Alliance got weak mandate"

Meanwhile, Senator Mustafa Nawaz Khokhar of the People's Party said that from the first day, he has been on the stand that general elections should be held immediately instead of governing the ungoverned crisis.

"The by-elections have made it clear that the coalition government has lost the support of the people," the PPP leader surmised, adding that the deal with the IMF should be done by the government with a new mandate.

He stressed that a government with a five-year mandate should take "tough decisions", adding that it was unreasonable to expect people to exchange "goods" when inflation was skyrocketing.