Former PML-N minority MPA praises Nawaz Sharif for empowering minorities

LONDON: Former PML-N minority seat MPA from Balochistan, Santosh Kumar Bugti, said on Thursday that the ex-prime minister Nawaz Sharif had “worked hard” to empower minorities in Pakistan during his tenures.

Bugti passed the remarks while speaking to the Pakistani media after meeting the PML-N supremo at his son Hasan Nawaz Sharif’s office near Hyde Park. Bugti is in London to meet PML-N supremo Nawaz Sharif and former finance minister Ishaq Dar.

The former MPA said that he discussed the latest situation of the country with the former premier and conveyed the best wishes of the Hindu community to Nawaz Sharif.

“Under Nawaz Sharif’s government, Pakistan had seen a lot of economic progress and there was a significant improvement in the lives of minority communities who were empowered in terms of human rights, employment and equal opportunities,” said Bugti.

The former MPA said that the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) in 2014 had revoked his membership as then party’s Balochistan chief Sanaullah Zehri filed a reference against him. He added that it was the PML-N supremo who came to his help when he became aware of the situation, adding that he had also won his case at the Supreme Court of Pakistan and was reinstated.

The former MPA said he congratulated Nawaz Sharif on the apology given to him by Kaveh Moussavi, the CEO of assets recovery firm Broadsheet, over the false allegations of corruption levelled against his leader Sharif for over two decades.

“Mr Kaveh Moussavi has offered an unequivocal apology to Nawaz Sharif. After 22 years of witch-hunting in the name of accountability, Mr Kaveh Moussavi has declared Nawaz Sharif as Sadiq and Ameen by declaring that his assets recovery firm had not found a scintilla of corruption evidence against him, not a rupee."

"This is a landmark vindication of Nawaz Sharif and this shows how he was targeted on completely false grounds. I congratulated Nawaz Sharif and told him that his millions of supporters always had trust in him,” said Bugti