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Lahore, Feb 13: Pakistan\u2019s former prime minister Shehbaz Sharif on Tuesday reaffirmed that Pakistan<\/a> Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) supremo Nawaz Sharif will become the prime minister for a record fourth time.
\nThe now 74-year-old leader first took power in 1990 but was forced out three years later by corruption allegations \u2014 a theme that has dogged his career.
\nHe came to power for the second time in 1997 and held the prime minister\u2019s post till 1999 when he was deposed in a military coup after plotting to sideline army chief of staff Pervez Musharraf.
\nMore than a decade later he was back in power in 2013, but fresh graft allegations emerged when his children were named in the 2016 Panama Papers leak for holding offshore companies.
\nHe was later convicted over separate corruption allegations and disqualified from office for life \u2014 the third time that he failed to complete a full term.
\n\u201cI still stand by my words that Nawaz Sharif will become prime minister for the fourth time,\u201d Dawn News quoted Shehbaz Sharif, the three-time former prime minister\u2019s younger brother, as saying at a press conference here.
\nTalking about the allegation of rigging in the recently concluded February 8 polls, Shehbaz said that in several areas PML-N stalwarts lost and independents won.
\n\u201cIn Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, the majority is of independent candidates [\u2026] does it mean they won through rigging? And in Sindh and Balochistan, there was no sign of independents,\u201d he said.
\n\u201cOn behalf of my party, independents are free, if they want to make a government, go ahead. We will sit in the opposition and fulfill our role,\u201d Shehbaz said.
\nThe PML-N President further said that after the party lost in 2018, it did not abuse anyone or hold any sit-ins.
\n\u201cWe went to Parliament<\/a> with black armbands [\u2026] who doesn\u2019t know that the election was stolen? We didn\u2019t say we would set Parliament on fire or give the nation a message of civil disobedience.\u201d
\nShehbaz said the next phase had begun after the polls and emphasised: \u201cIf they call themselves PTI-sponsored or non-PTI-sponsored \u2013 if they can form a government then they should. The president will not give them an invitation.\u201d\u201cIf they can show the majority [in the Assembly] then we will gladly sit in the opposition benches and play the constitutional role. If they cannot make a government, then obviously other political parties will decide with consensus and field a candidate. This is the constitutional way [\u2026] we need to move forward like this and finalise the upcoming phase,\u201d said the former prime minister, who took power after cricketer-turned-politician Imran Khan was ousted in a no-trust move in April 2022.
\nIndependent candidates, mostly backed by Khan\u2019s PTI, won 101 seats in the 266-member National Assembly in the February 8 general elections. Former prime minister Nawaz Sharif\u2019s PML-N has won 75 seats and former foreign minister Bilawal Bhutto\u2019s PPP has won 54 seats.
\nThe PTI-backed candidates ran as independents due to the party losing the election symbol of \u2018bat\u2019 following controversy surrounding its intra-party elections.
\nAccording to the party, the PTI was cruising with a lead of 170 National Assembly seats before the alleged rigging swung the pendulum in favour of the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) party.
\nShehbaz also noted alleged rigging in past polls and asked: \u201cWhich election is there where allegations of rigging were not made?\u201d
\n\u201cOn one hand there are allegations of rigging [but] then independents are winning and we are losing. This is contradictory,\u201d he said.
\n\u201cSo please, elections have happened and it was proven that out of political parties, PML-N is the biggest party. If you count independents, then their number is greater \u2013 but in political parties, PML-N is number one,\u201d he said.
\nMeanwhile, in a response to questions regarding inducting \u201cturncoats\u201d into the PML-N, Shehbaz said PTI hurled abuses at his party during its election campaign.
\n\u201cDespite that, Nawaz Sharif said that PTI-backed independents should be given their constitutional right to form a government if they want to.
\n\u201cBut if people want to join the PML-N out of their own will, what is the problem in that?\u201d he asked.
\n\u201cIn the name of God, in the name of Pakistan, we should show the world that we have learned our lesson [\u2026] and make Pakistan a country that was envisioned by Iqbal and Quaid,\u201d the PML-N president said.<\/p>\n

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Lahore, Feb 13: Pakistan\u2019s former prime minister Shehbaz Sharif on Tuesday reaffirmed that Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) supremo Nawaz Sharif will become the prime minister for a record fourth time. 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