NA-120 by-election to end politics of puppets: Maryam

LAHORE: PML-N leader Maryam Nawaz on Thursday said the nation, not the courts, was to decide the future of Nawaz Sharif adding that the politics of puppets would cease to exist after the NA-120 by-election.

“Your leader was treated unjustly. It is up to you to do justice now,” she said asking the voters to show up in numbers and vote for PML-N candidate Begum Kulsoom Nawaz on September 17. “We do not want the Iqama or Panama-like [biased] justice,” she remarked, addressing a women workers convention of her party. Maryam said, “On September 17, we will give an answer to all the injustices against us. The politics of puppets will cease to exist after the by-poll.”

“My father served the people during the last four-and-a-half years and this is why people have showered him with so much love,” she said. “Thanks to the disqualification, wherever you look you will only see Nawaz Sharif,” Maryam said and added that Nawaz proved that democracy could deliver in Pakistan.

“You must respect your vote. Promise me the lion will roar in the streets of Lahore on September 17,” she added. Maryam also said that she had paid a heavy price of supporting her father through thick and thin. “I have faced many conspiracies but I never let anything harm my leader’s reputation,” she remarked.

“My name was unfairly taken in the Dawn Leaks scandal,” Maryam said. “I had to suffer since I was the daughter of Nawaz Sharif and I stood by my prime minister,” she added. She said, “The people, who are now opposing us, were quite when the country was progressing. Where were they when roads were being built? Where were they when motorways were being built? Where were they during CPEC?”

“Thankful for all the love given to my father and my mother by you all,” she told all her party supporters. She noted that Imran Khan, the person who attacked the parliament and judiciary, and Pervez Musharraf, who abrogated the Constitution, were declared ‘Sadiq and Ameen’.