“The red carpet for his return is not being rolled out by the PML-N but by someone else,” Shah added

Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) leader Kursheed Shah criticised former prime minister and Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) head Nawaz Sharif, alleging that he had engaged in negotiations with powerful quarters to come back to power.

“If Nawaz Sharif comes to power by dealing with powerful circles at this age, then what would be left of his politics,” he asked rhetorically.

“The red carpet for his return is not being rolled out by the PML-N but by someone else,” Shah added.

Observing that despite facing a lot of problems, PML-N is still doing “backdoor politics”, Khursheed Shah stated that he told the PML-N chief that he was committing a mistake by climbing on “someone else’s shoulder” to come into power.

The former leader of the opposition also questioned how a convict and fugitive could address a public gathering in Lahore.

“This is a dangerous trap in which the PML-N is trapped. What was the difference between Pakistan Tehran-e-Insaf (PTI) chairman [Imran Khan] and Nawaz Sharif?”

Shah asserted that Nawaz Sharif is being taken into power, just as PTI chief Imran Khan was given power in 2018.