Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) President Shehbaz Sharif said on Thursday that former prime minister Nawaz Sharif is returning to the country to bring economic stability to the country.

Expressing his thoughts during his interaction with the traders' community in Lahore, the former prime minister urged the need for political stability in a bid to attain economic stability in the country. He said, “The journey of prosperity will start from where it ended.”

He recalled the tenure of the Pakistan Democratic Movement’s (PDM) government, saying, “The PDM-led government had sacrificed its politics to save the country. In this regard, we have no regrets whatsoever.”

“We admit that there is inflation in the country. But it came as a legacy of the former government [the PTI-led government],” he added.

He took a swipe at the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI), saying, “For the last four years, the country has been on the verge of development.”

– Sanaullah recalls Nawaz’s ouster –

Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) senior leader Rana Sanaullah recalled on Thursday former prime minister Nawaz Sharif’s ouster when he was overthrown by former president General Pervez Musharraf on October 12, 1999.

Expressing his thoughts in Faisalabad, Sanaullah said, “Today will be remembered as the blackest day in the country’s history, when the democratic government was toppled. If that event would not happened, things could have been different, and the country’s economy would have been strengthened”.

“Even the PML-N-led government had to face the crisis when it came into power in 2013. No one was ready to invest in the country. It was Nawaz Sharif who came to the country’s rescue. He played a vital role in a bid to end the menace of terrorism in the country,” Sanaullah added.

Recalling the tenure of the coalition government, the former interior minister said: “Even though we could not manage to control the inflation, we averted the risks of the country’s default within 16 months.”

He asserted, “No other party is capable of steer the country out of the quagmire, with the exception of the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N), spearheaded by Nawaz Sharif.”