Political victimisation

PML-N workers threaten to launch agitation

By Our correspondent

MANSEHRA: The workers of Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) on Sunday threatened to launch protest against the political victimisation of former prime minister Nawaz Sharif and his family members in the name of accountability.

“We are ready to stage protest,” Member National Assembly (MNA) Sajjad Ahmad Awan told a meeting here.

The meeting, which was largely attended among others by District Nazim Sardar Said Ghulam and PML-N district president Zafar Mehmood, urged the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf government to release the detained prime minister for treatment abroad.

Sajjad Awan, who is elder brother of Captain (Retd) Mohammad Safdar Awan, the son-in-law of Nawaz Sharif, said though the general election was manipulated under a conspiracy, people still supported the PML-N.

District Nazim Sardar Said Ghulam told the meeting that his party should give a call to workers to take to the streets as Pakistan People’s Party did recently when the leadership appeared before the accountability court in Islamabad.

“We have communicated the message of street agitation to party leadership at a meeting held in Peshawar last week and are waiting for their response,” said Sardar Ghulam.

Speaking on the occasion, Zafar Mehmood said that Nawaz Sharif was a popular leader who put the country on way to prosperity and economic sustainability.