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Gilgit
In her latest attack targeted at Prime Minister Imran Khan and his party, PML-N Vice President Maryam Nawaz on Monday likened them to the novel Coronavirus.
“The disease called Covid-19 came to the world recently, but it had already spread in Pakistan in 2018,” she said while addressing a public gathering in Gupis, Gilgit-Baltistan.
“And this disease doesn’t go away by wearing masks,” she continued. “It will go away when we throw it out.”
The PML-N vice-president, who is on a seven-day election campaign ahead of the GB polls scheduled for the coming Sunday, said it “pained her to take the name of a person like Imran”.
“Mian sahab has already put him aside, telling him to stay out of this fight between elders. But I have no choice but to take his name.”
She said that “Imran Khan and his party of turncoats” is the name of the disease spreading through Pakistan today. Maryam blamed the premier for weakening the country’s ideological roots along with its economy, the federation and institutions.
The PML-N leader said that the government was on the verge of collapsing.
She further said that a person like Imran Khan does not deserve the stature of the PM Office.Talking about her party’s five-year tenure, Maryam told the people of Gupis that it was the PML-N government in GB that made Yasinabad into a district, but it was not given its fair share by the incumbent government in Islamabad.
“The solution for your problems is only one, and the name of it is Nawaz Sharif,” said Maryam as she made the case to the people to vote for her party.
The PML-N leader said that people say that GB votes for the same party that rules in Islamabad. She added that the people of GB were intelligent and no one will “board a sinking plane, but many will jump from it”.
The PML-N leader also appealed to the women present at the rally to come out on election day along with their families and relatives and vote for the PML-N.
Maryam Nawaz said the government’s ship was sinking, it will now only see people getting off it and not on it.
She said the people never recognised the incumbent government because it was a fake government, that is not destined to earn people’s respect.
Referring to the crowd present at the PML-N’s meeting, Maryam said that todays gathering was telling that the PML-N will win the election in Gilgit-Baltistan.
Accusing the incumbent government of withholding funds that were released for the valley, she said that it has been learnt that the people here were not even given their just share and compensation in the jobs that were created from the construction of the Diamer Bhasha dams.
Maryam added that no one had done what Nawaz Sharif did for the Diamer and Bhasha dams till date. She assured the gathering of PML-N members taking up the issue of jobs in parliament, adding that she will also raise her voice for the victims.
“PML-N is the only solution to the problems of the people,” maintained the party’s vice president as she urged them to vote the party’s candidates.
In referrence to PTI leader Ali Amin Gandapur’s comments for her, said during a rally of the PTI in G-B, Maryam said that Nawaz Sharif’s opponents were “depraved people, who have only one job and that is to use abusive language and take revenge”.
