SHEIKHUPURA: PML-N Vice-President Maryam Nawaz has said that her party will “bury” Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) politically in the upcoming by-elections in Punjab and accused the former ruling party of economic mismanagement and bad governance.
“People know who is responsible for inflation..he [Imran Khan] did not build even a single development project during his four years in power,” Maryam said while addressing a rally in Punjab’s Sheikhupura district on Friday.
Maryam’s rally was a part of the campaign for upcoming by-elections scheduled to be held on July 17 on 20 Punjab Assembly seats.
Speaking about the ECP’s decision to suspend the Punjab government’s free electricity scheme for lifeline consumers, Maryam said Imran approached the court and halted the scheme due to “enmity against Punjab”.
“People would get relief but this man has approached the court to stop it from happening… we will provide free electricity to people consuming less than 100 units.”
Maryam said amid a slump in global prices, Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif will soon announce a major-relief package for inflation-hit masses.
“Shehbaz Sharif did not only reduce flour prices for Punjab but for the entire country including Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa because this is not politics but a service to the people,” she added.
“People will bury PTI’s politics in Punjab by-polls as they know who is responsible for inflation,” he said, adding, “The PML-N will lift people out of problems and soon steer the country out of crisis.”
The ruling party leader while speaking about the former NAB chairman’s scandal, said Tayyaba Gull had approached the then prime minister Imran to get justice. “But instead of providing her justice, she was forcefully kept in the PM House and Imran took videos from her to blackmail NAB chairman..”
Gull has alleged that NAB officials stripped her naked, made videos and filed cases when she refused to comply with then anti-corruption chairman Justice (retd) Javed Iqbal’s “demands”.
“He had promised to turn the PM House into university but instead it was turned into a hub of blackmailing.”
Maryam said NAB closed down all cases against PTI leaders and stepped up investigations against PML-N leaders after former PM Imran “blackmailed” the then NAB chairman.
