PML-N unveils its Plan B for Nawaz Sharif

Lahore: If there are legal hurdles impeding former premier Nawaz Sharif’s accession to the Prime Minister’s Office for a fourth term, the PML-N will remove them after coming into power, Rana Sanaullah, the party’s Punjab president, said.

With a stop-gap arrangement in mind, the PML-N seems to have prepared a plan B for ensuring that its supremo becomes the premier for the fourth time.

Earlier, the party remained confident that there would be no legal impediments for its supremo to become the premier yet again, and given the kind of the concessions doled out to Nawaz, it appeared to be a likely possibility.

However, Sanaullah’s admission of a plan B has revealed that party might not be all that confident about the prospects of the court cases against Nawaz.

Although when asked, Sanaullah said the party hoped that “frivolous” cases against its supremo must be heard expeditiously and decisions should be delivered at the earliest. He added that if there were any hurdles, the party’s decision about Nawaz becoming the premier would still remain unchanged.

To a question about any strategy to avoid confrontation with the ‘powerful circles’ to ensure Nawaz completed his fourth term as the PM, the PML-N Punjab chief maintained that the party never had any issue with them in past as well.