LARKANA: Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) Vice President Maryam Nawaz has once again lashed out at the PTI-led federal government, saying “those who brought Prime Minister Imran Khan into power will now have to withdraw their support.”
The leaders of the Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM) – as part of the second phase of its anti-government campaign – reached the mausoleum of the former premier from Naudero to address the crowd.
Maryam Nawaz asserted that Imran Khan is the only politician in the country who criticised the state institutions while he was in India and accused him of dragging the military into politics.
“We don’t ask the military to overthrow Imran Khan’s government, we only ask his selectors to stop supporting him so that people could themselves decide about his fate,” the PML-N leader remarked.
She also said, “Imran Khan knows he doesn’t even have the authority to give NRO,”, adding that the premier watches PDM’s rally through binocular and then celebrates if any of the opposition leaders missing from the stage.
Maryam Nawaz also spoke in Sindhi and thanked her hosts for their warmth and hospitality since her arrival in the city. She said it saddens her that Benazir Bhutto had to lay down her life during her struggle and for her beliefs.
She said she knows what it is to lose a mother. “The grief is still fresh from two and a half years ago. I still got to spend time with my mother but Bilawal lost his mother when he was still so young,” she added.
The PML-N leader recalled the forging of the Charter of Democracy signed between PPP and PML-N, a journey that was started by Nawaz Sharif and Benazir Bhutto. “This is not simply strands from history, these were events that were to alter Pakistan’s fate,” she said.
Maryam vowed that she and Bilawal will not only continue the journey but propel it forward. “The political mistakes that were made in the past were taken advantage of by anti-democratic forces,” she remarked.
She said some forces for whom a divide and rule strategy made more sense, then put together fallen fragments from political parties and formed the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf.
“At a time when people are killing themselves out of hunger and desperation due to inflation, PM Imran said, ‘What can I do, I have no magic button,” she said, adding, “The corrupt are being pardoned, whereas political leaders are thrown into jail, shot down and made to face the courts,” she added.
