Maryam Nawaz calls for changing judges’ oath

Says no-one can erase Nawaz from hearts and minds of people

LAHORE: Ramping up critical rhetoric against the judiciary, Maryam Nawaz said on Sunday that the judges’ oaths should now include words denoting that their decisions are merit based and judicious.

She was addressing a sizable crowd gathered in UC-55 at Bilal Gunj, concluding a day-long march in NA-120, where she was campaigning for her mother, Begum Kulsoom Nawaz.

She made short stopovers and briefly spoke at various places on her way to Bilal Gunj.

The state-run TV gave extensive coverage to the rally, showing minute-to-minute movement of Maryam Nawaz.

Terming Nawaz Sharif’s disqualification a joke, she said: “I don’t know if the (judges arrived at this) decision because of some (personal) grudge or (they were) under some pressure, holding our three generations accountable and internal family affairs were discussed during court proceedings.”



She said: “We were asked why Nawaz’s son gave him money? Why Nawaz gifted Maryam? Why was Nawaz living in his mother’s house? I ask people asking such questions … who insult our family and violate our basic rights, don’t you give your daughters presents? Don’t you take money from your sons as parents do when they are old? Don’t you like (to live) in your parents’ house?”

She said: “Our rivals are trying their level best to prove that Nawaz Sharif was not disqualified because of Iqama but corruption.”

She said that if the decision had been based on merit, it would not have required “a spokesperson to speak for it, the judgement would have spoken itself”.



She said that it did not matter if Nawaz Sharif was disqualified. “No-one can erase him (Nawaz Sharif) from hearts and minds of people.”

Addressing a charged crowd, she said that Nawaz Sharif had pledged to serve his countrymen, end power outages, eliminate terrorism and initiate major infrastructure projects.

“The mantra of our main political rival (PTI) is umpire’s finger, sit-ins and Panama Papers.”

She said that Lahoriites should not vote for people who abused Lahore and the infrastructure projects of Lahore which had been initiated for the betterment of Lahorites.

Referring to PML-N rivals, she said that the party’s political nemesis were merely ‘pawns whose strings are being pulled by someone else’.

She said that September 17 victory of PML-N would prove once and for all that people had rejected these pawns and rejected Nawaz Sharif’s disqualification.