Maryam Nawaz, the Senior Vice President of the Pakistan Muslim League-N, on Friday dismissed allegations of engaging in revenge politics against Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf, questioning the accusers whether it was her party that had called for an attack on the state on May 9 or waved a cypher during a rally.
“Those who are hurling allegations of revenge and a level playing field at us should tell, was it Nawaz Sharif who told you to wave the cypher, attack the state on May 9, attack policemen, hold fake intra-party elections, or set fire to the memorials of martyrs,” Maryam said during her address in a rally in Khanewal while responding to allegations hurled by former ruling party PTI’s leadership.
The cypher case pertains to a piece of paper that Imran had waved at a public rally on March 27, 2022, ahead of a vote of confidence that he lost. The former prime minister, later naming the US, had claimed that the cypher was ‘evidence’ of an “international conspiracy” to topple his government.
Addressing concerns about rising inflation, Maryam dismissed the notion that economic hardships had deterred the support for the PML-N, adding that there was no political party in a position to challenge PML-N in the political arena at the moment.
Recounting her own experiences, she added, “I faced arrest, learned of my mother’s death in jail, and spent years in jail, yet I did not let my father’s head bow down.”
