Trade talks with Saudi Arabia finalized during PML-N tenure: Nawaz Sharif

LAHORE - Former prime minister Nawaz Sharif claimed on Thursday that the trade talks with Saudi Arabia were finalized when he was in power.

In a conversation with party leaders at the Kot Lakhpat jail in Lahore, the supreme leader of Pakistan Muslim League Nawaz expressed that the Saudi crown prince signed aid packages with him adding that international matters take time to complete.

The former lawmaker also fired a broadside at the incumbent regime for 'relaunching PML-N's projects'.

Sharif, who has been convicted in the Al-Azizia steel mills reference, said that the sitting government was trying to take credit for the projects established by PML-N; he categorically mentioned motorways and health cards as being the projects launched by his party.

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The former premier mentioned that had PML-N been in power, people would have been travelling in Orange Line Metro Train.

"We left the Lahore-Multan motorway almost complete for them and they could not even finish that. They could not even complete the Lahore-Multan interchange," the former prime minister deplored.

Sharif, however, expressed that they (PTI) can claim credit for the projects but they should be opened for public.

Regarding the cases filed by the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) against Shehbaz Sharif, the elder Sharif said NAB was being humiliated for the cases.

"NAB filed cases against development projects in Punjab but did nothing against the people in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa," the PML-N leader shared.

Criticizing former president General (retd) Pervez Musharraf, Nawaz Sharif said that the NAB laws were made keeping him in focus.

To a query about his health, the PML-N leader said that the government had constituted four medical boards regarding his health and all of them confirmed about his heart condition.

In response to another question about whether he desired to go home or to the hospital from prison, Nawaz inquired who wants to go to a hospital?

When I saw the weather in the morning, I wanted to go to Malam Jabba, he quipped.