LAHORE: Sacked prime minister Nawaz
Sharif’s daughter Maryam Safdar
on Sunday claimed that the world will witness Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz’s (PML-N) victory on September 17 in NA-120 by-election.
Maryam chaired PML-N’s session in Model Town to deliberate upon the preparations and to devise future strategies. Senator Pervaiz Rasheed, State Minister for Interior Talal Chaudhry and lawmaker Maiza Hameed participated in the meeting.
Maryam said Panama case was continued for a year and half and her family was humiliated. She remarked that the name of her father was not even in the Panama Papers. The decision of this case has been announced four times, and will now come for f
ifth time, she maintai
ned.
Maryam said that when a leader becomes popular then Iqama type decisions are declared against him. She was referring to verdict due to which Nawaz was sent home by the Supreme Court on July 28.
She said let it be known that PML-N believed in rule of law and praised the role of lawyers for the upholding of constitution in the country. She also reminded that PML-N and lawyers worked shoulder to shoulder against former president Pervez Musharraf.
She made it clear that her party is not violating any rule, and the elec
tion campaign is being held under the guidelines of the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP). She also praised the enthusiasm of party workers.
Those who disqualified him should be asked why the guarantor of development was sacked, she added.
The people will give the verdict on review petition on September 17, she added.
The NA-120 seat fell vacant in the wake of Nawaz
Sharif’s disqualification. The
Sharifs were given more than one year to prove their innocence, but they failed.
