Service Delivery Sole Criteria to Compete for Public Office, says PM

Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Wednesday said politics in the country has been reduced to "meaningless rhetoric" and termed service delivery as the main criterion to compete for public office. 

 The premier made the remarks on Twitter and maintained that “our politics suffers from a structural flaw”, adding that it has been “reduced to a shorthand for grandstanding and meaningless rhetoric.”

In an early morning tweet, Shehbaz furthered that "service delivery alone should govern competition for public office. Politics is an arena where people compete to serve fellow citizens.”

The remarks by the premier come as the government failed to reach any consensus on the issue of holding negotiations with the opposition Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI), but separately the parties met with one another to break the current political impasse.

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Sources revealed that the ruling alliance was not on the same page when it comes to holding talks with the PTI while, on the other, Federal Minister for Information and Broadcasting Marriyum Aurangzeb refuted all such sources-based reports, saying the reports of differences among the coalition partners were “wrong” and “baseless”.