PML-N Vice President Maryam Nawaz on Wednesday maintained that the results of the recent Gilgit-Baltistan elections could hardly be described as a victory for the PTI as it had failed to gain a simple majority in the region “despite rigging” the polls.
“It is not you [PM Imran] who should be congratulated for the seats you managed to win, but your ‘selectors’,” the PML-N leader said while addressing a party rally in Mansehra.
“You [PTI] didn’t get a government in G-B, you got crutches to stand on,” she added.
PML-N Vice President Maryam Nawaz addresses the jalsa in Mansehra
Posted by Express Tribune on Wednesday, November 18, 2020
Maryam claimed that the PTI had managed to bag only eight seats in G-B despite “forcing PML-N leaders in the region to switch sides and resorting to other pre-poll rigging tactics”.
“Even these seats [won by the PTI] are courtesy of the ‘stolen’ PML-N leaders,” she said.
"We won't congratulate Imran Khan for them but his ‘selectors’.”
According to the unofficial results of 23 constituencies of G-B, the PTI bagged 10 seats. The PPP secured three seats and the PML-N two.
مانسہرہ جلسہ میں جاتے ہوئے حویلیاں انٹر چینج پر مریم نواز شریف کا استقبال pic.twitter.com/RnkZBZBwyB
— PML(N) (@pmln_org) November 18, 2020
The Majlis Wahdat-e-Muslimeen Pakistan (MWM), an ally of the PTI, secured one seat, whereas independent candidates emerged victorious in seven constituencies.
Continuing her volley of criticism, Maryam said the prices of medicines would continue to soar until “this fake government is in power”.
“Did you get the Naya Pakistan promised to you two years ago?” the PML-N leader asked the crowd of party supporters gathered at the rally.
"This country will not progress till this government is in power... peoples' lives will continue to get more difficult until this incompetent government is thrown out of power," she added.
Preparations to decorate the venue of the rally are underway. PHOTO: EXPRESS
The PML-N leader said her father, PML-N supremo Nawaz Sharif, had always stood by the people of Mansehra. She claimed that he was now being ‘punished’ for fulfilling his promises made to the people.
“Did he not give you the Hazara Motorway?” she asked the crowd. “The motorway they [PTI government] now claim to have been built by them,” she said.
ہزارہ والے کل میرے جلسے میں شامل ہوکر میاں صاحب کے بیانیے کو اور زیادہ تقویت دیں اور اس گرتی ہوئی دیوار جو جعلی حکومت ہے اسکو آخری دھکا لگائیں.ہماری حکمت عملی یہی ہے جو چل رہی ہے.مریم نوازشریف pic.twitter.com/MgjCT4VitT
— PML(N) (@pmln_org) November 17, 2020
The PML-N leader during her stay in G-B for her party’s election campaign, she saw that the entire region supported her father.
She added that even though there was no internet in many remote areas of G-B, its people were aware of Sharif’s narrative of upholding the sanctity of the vote.
ہمارے کارکنوں کی گرفتاریاں اور جلسوں پہ پابندی انکے خوف کی عکاس ہے انکو جو خوف پی ڈی ایم کے جلسوں سے مسلم لیگ ن اور نوازشریف سےجو تکلیف ہورہی ہے یہ سب اسکا اظہار ہے.@MaryamNSharif pic.twitter.com/DF6lTIwFgR
— PML(N) (@pmln_org) November 17, 2020
“It is because of his [Sharif] narrative that despite a ‘fixed match’, you did not get a mandate [from G-B].”
The PML-N leader called on party activists to support the rally of the Pakistan Democratic Movement’s (PDM) – an 11-party opposition alliance – on November 22 in Peshawar, and make their ‘outrage’ against the incumbent government known.
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