Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Wednesday visited the mausoleum of Father of the Nation Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah, where he paid his respects and offered Fateha.
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This is the first visit of Shehbaz Sharif to the Mazar-e-Quaid after he took the oath as the prime minister on April 11.
The prime minister laid a wreath at the mausoleum and also penned his comments in the visitors’ book.
In his remarks, the prime minister said he was there to pay tribute to the great Quaid for his great struggle to create a separate homeland and show his respects to him.
“I am sorry that we couldn’t follow the path you had expected from us and this disappointed your soul. I make a pledge that I will try my best to serve my countrymen and live up to your expectations,” the prime minister said mentioning him below as “Khadim-e-Pakistan.”
He was accompanied by PML-N leaders Shahid Khaqan Abbasi, Ahsan Iqbal and Marriyum Aurangzeb, MQM leaders Khalid Maqbool Siddiqui and Aminul Haq, and JUI-F leader Muhammad Ali Durrani.
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Chief Minister of Sindh Syed Murad Ali Shah was also present there.
