PESHAWAR: The Awami National Party (ANP) on Sunday demanded the PML-N Supremo to tender an apology to the people of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa over “dubbing them as fools.”
Yesterday, Nawaz Sharif Nawaz while speaking at the launch of PML-N’s manifesto in Lahore said: “Some of our people are easily fooled. And the easiest to fool are some people from Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa. This disease originated from there.. [KP].”
ANP spokesperson Samar Haroon Bilour, in a post on X, (erstwhile Twitter) said “such language does not befit the PML-N chief who attained premiership thrice to refer to the people of a province as fools.”
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She added that Nawaz’s remark came at a time when his daughter, Maryam Nawaz, was canvassing in the province.
“On what basis are these people seeking vote from people?” asked Bilour.
Criticizing the PML-N, the ANP spokesperson said the same party had earlier refused to give the people of KP their due rights. “Maybe Nawaz is repeating history,” she added.
“We know that any individual who has a domicile from Punjab is considered respectable in this country, but the leaders of K-P are still present.”
Condemning Nawaz for his language, the ANP spokesperson demanded the PML-N supremo to issue a public apology and retract his statement against the people of K-P.
A day earlier, Nawaz took a swipe at the state of affairs in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, asserting that those who left the country in a state of disarray were the ones who had initially disrupted it.
He questioned the outcome of the promised ‘Naya Pakistan’ by PTI founder Imran Khan and blamed the citizens of KP for bringing the PTI into power.
“What do the people of K-P say? Did the province progress? Has ‘Naya Pakistan’ been made?” he asked.
