BUNAIR May 14 (TNS): Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) leader Maryam Nawaz on Monday said that her father, former premier Nawaz Sharif, is now being termed a traitor after opponents failed to curtail the popularity of his \u201cnarrative demanding respect for vote\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey disqualified him for life, then removed from party leadership, but as all these moves failed to diminish his popularity among the masses, they are now using the treason card (against Nawaz Sharif),\u201d said Maryam during a party rally in Bunair district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.<\/p>\n
She asked the crowd whether they think Nawaz Sharif is a \u201ctraitor\u201d, upon which the party workers cried \u201cNo\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe thing is simple, do you want respect for your vote or not? the power of the vote is people power, your power; your elected leaders are being branded traitors\u2026 are only elected leaders traitor?\u201d she asked the crowd.<\/p>\n
Maryam Nawaz lamented that her father, three-time PM Nawaz Sharif, braved all threats and rejected foreign aid for May 28 nuclear tests but is now being termed, traitor.<\/p>\n
\u201cCan a man like Nawaz, who presented the Kashmir issue at UN, paid tribute to Burhan Wani Saheed be termed a traitor?,\u201d asked Maryam Nawaz.<\/p>\n
She also claimed that her father took all the blame for the 1999 Kargil war for her country\u2019s valiant soldiers despite the fact that then army chief General (retd) Pervez Musharraf had initiated the war without his knowledge but is still being called a traitor.<\/p>\n
It is pertinent to note here that PML-N\u2019s lifelong leader and three-time PM Nawaz Sharif\u2019s\u00a0 \u2018Mumbai attacks\u2019 comments during an interview to a local newspaper have triggered a flood of criticism from analysts, politicians and the general public in Pakistan.<\/p>\n
Former PM and Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz\u2019s lifelong leader, in an interview with a leading English daily, said that \u201cmilitant organisations are active\u201d in Pakistan and asked the interviewer if the state should allow them to cross the border and \u201ckill 150 people in Mumbai\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
BUNAIR May 14 (TNS): Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) leader Maryam Nawaz on Monday said that her father, former premier Nawaz Sharif, is now being termed a traitor after opponents failed to curtail the popularity of his \u201cnarrative demanding respect for vote\u201d. \u201cThey disqualified him for life, then removed from party leadership, but as all these […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":65304,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65302","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=65302"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65302\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65305,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65302\/revisions\/65305"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/65304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=65302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=65302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=65302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}