ISLAMABAD: Deposed prime minister Nawaz Sharif said on Monday that PML-N would continue its ‘respect to vote’ campaign and he will not surrender before the dark forces.

Addressing party lawmakers alongside Pakistan Muslim League-N (PML-N) President and Punjab Chief Minister Shehbaz Sharif, Nawaz said if the party legislators will support him they will definitely win.

Nawaz said PML-N believes in serving the masses and if its agenda of development was given ten to twenty years’ time, destiny of Pakistan would be changed.

Castigating Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) chairman, Nawaz said, Imran Khan should stop his duplicity and spreading lies as this was not the method to make a new Pakistan.

He asked Imran what his party has done for public welfare in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP), where the PTI is in power for past five years.

Talking about the Pakistan Peoples’ Party (PPP), he asked why the PPP did not initiate the Karachi Operation in 2013 on its own. "Karachi has turned into a pile of garbage," he remarked.

Referring to PPP co-chairman and former president Asif Ali Zardari, Nawaz said, there were allegations against him of taking the country into the dark ages.

Nawaz Sharif challenged his opponents in KP and Sindh to compare their provinces to Punjab, where the PML-N is in power.

He also asked his opponents to make comparison of Karachi and Peshawar with Punjab capital Lahore and they will feel the difference as Lahore was far better.

He said he launched work on several motorway projects after coming to power in 2013 and with their completion dream of the people will be realized.

He said if his party agenda of service and development was given 10 to 20 years’ time, destiny of the nation would be changed.

But he said unfortunately he was not allowed to serve the people of Pakistan by interventions.