The private screenings in Lahore and Islamabad were attended by a number of politicians, plus bureaucrats and army officers, an ex-chief justice and even a representative of the censors.
The 50mw plants will be situated near the Salt Range, a 100-mile coal belt that runs east to west and is midway between Lahore and Islamabad, while the 200mw plant will be in southern Punjab in Dera Ghazi Khan.
One story has it that the highway between Lahore and Islamabad is longer than it should be because it takes a circuitous route across land held by Sharif cronies, who collected handsome returns for allowing the road to pass.
Should he win national office again, Mr. Sharif whose government succeeded in building a highway between Lahore and Islamabad in the 1990s has promised a bullet train that will move passengers from Karachi on the country's south coast to Peshawar in the northwest.
He warned of further attacks on "government targets" in Lahore, Islamabad, Rawalpindi and Multan.
The motorway between Islamabad and Lahore is one of his proudest achievements.
Peerzada held special screenings in Islamabad and Lahore, inviting around 140 people from all walks of life, from rickshaw drivers to judges.
The cities of Islamabad, Lahore, Peshawar and Rawalpindi were among those affected.
Several thousand people turned out Friday at demonstrations in Peshawar, Islamabad, Quetta and Lahore following services at mosques on the Muslim day of prayer.
Associated Press writers Asif Shahzad in Islamabad, Zaheer Babar in Lahore and Rasool Dawar in Peshawar contributed to this report.
Sharif countered the challenge from Khan by pointing out how much more experience in government he has and touting key projects he completed while in office, including a highway between the capital Islamabad and his hometown of Lahore.
The U.S. Embassy in Islamabad, Pakistan, and its consulates in Lahore, Karachi and Peshawar were closed Monday to routine business, the embassy said in a statement.
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