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Summary Nawaz and Shahbaz say derailing democratic system on Oct 12, 1999 hampered national progress.
PML-N chied Nawaz Sharif has said that the people of Pakistan believed in democratic change, through balloting, not through dictatorial grabbing of power.In a statement issued on Thursday, he said under dictatorial rule, an individual only runs the entire system of the country and obeys the decisions of others in accordance with their vested interests.Sharif observed that, on the black day of October 12, 1999, a tragedy happened to the democracy in Pakistan and the elected government of the people, when a dictator removed the democratic government through an unconstitutional and illegal action, he added.Nawaz Sharif said that the country was facing manifold problems, including terrorism bad governance, inflation, unemployment, and loadshedding due to inadequate and anti-people policies of the government, he claimed.He stated that if any state losses the trust and support of its people, that state was considered as a defenseless state in the International world.In his message on the occasion of 12th October, the Chief Minister Muhammad Shahbaz Sharif, while paying rich tributes to the political forces particularly leaders and workers of Pakistan Muslim League-N who faced atrocities in the dictatorial era with courage and determination, said that 12th October 1999 is the blackest day in our national history when a dictator toppled the democratic and elected government.He asked the political forces of Pakistan to renew their determination on this day that they would not allow such undemocratic step in future in Pakistan.Shahbaz Sharif said that the Pakistani people salute the sacrifices of those heroes of the country and the nation who bravely faced the state brutalities during dictatorship of Musharraf and saved the democratic system through their sacrifices.“Today, we would have to pledge that we would utilize all our energies for making Pakistan a country of Quaid-e-Azam and Allama Iqbal in the real sense by upholding democratic principles”, he concluded.
