ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Muslim League Nawaz senior leader Khawaja Asif has said that although ex-PM Nawaz Sharif’s homecoming has been delayed until October, party president Shehbaz Sharif and Ishaq Dar should return to the country immediately. He said there is growing public anger over the rising cost of living and runaway inflation.
“There is no doubt there are countless [causes of unrest] for the people, and there is only one solution to this. We must constantly… constantly stay in touch with the people, so they can see us,” Asif said, adding that keeping a distance from people was not a solution.
During a TV show, he said that even if Nawaz delays his return to Pakistan in October owing to the fact that no election dates had been announced, the former premier and former finance minister should return immediately to address the criticism that the party has been facing for its decisions during its term in power.
He said that PML-N Senior Vice President Maryam Nawaz was in constant contact with the people.
“All of us MNAs are sitting in our constituencies,” he added.
The former defence minister, however, said that he owned the party’s decision given the state of the economy and the country when the Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM) began its term.
