Nation ashamed of convicted PM: Shahbaz

Chief Minister of the Punjab, Mian Shahbaz Sharif Saturday said that the industrial sector of the province had been badly damaged by excessive power outages and faulty policies of the government.He was addressing the ceremony organized for the distribution of 2500 laptops among the students of Fatima Jinnah University.CM Punjab said that the country had fallen prey to economic downfall due to the faulty policies of the central government.Noting that the country did not lack resources, he said, that the crisis of natural gas and electricity had been engineered to damage the national industries. As a result of all this the rate of unemployment was on the rise, he added.Muhammad Shahbaz Sharif further noted that PM Yusuf Raza Gilani defied decision of the apex court and did not resign from premiership despite being convicted. He said that the Pakistani nation was ashamed of the reports published about the premier in English media.He claimed that his party would get the looted money back, from the Swiss banks and would spend it for bettering health and education.He also blamed the chanters of the slogan, “Pakistan First,” for ruining the departments of health and education.He noted that the corrupt rulers are selling blood of the innocent Pakistani martyrs by giving permission of drone attacks. CM Punjab said that the rulers had been perplexed by the scheme under which laptops were being distributed among the intelligent students of the Punjab on merit.