Govt scared of PML-N’s soaring popularity, says Maryam Nawaz
LAHORE: PML-N Vice President Maryam Nawaz on Tuesday slammed the PTI government, saying that the it was afraid of the PML-N’s rising popularity graph.
Maryam was chairing a press conference after her appearance today at the NAB office in Lahore when chaos ensued after the PML-N workers and Punjab Police clashed.
Police baton-charged PML-N workers and fired tear gas shells at them. Maryam stopped her vehicle and refused to go home, stating that she was “standing here and not going back without giving answers”.
At the news conference, she called today’s incident an act of “state-sponsored terrorism” witnessed by her personally.
“Not for me or the PML-N, it is a moment to ponder for the ‘fake and selected’ government,” she said, adding that today the unarmed party workers present near the NAB office were shelled with tear gas and baton-charged.
“I saw for the first time stoning, NAB’s thuggery and tear-gas shelling but the workers remained steadfast,” she said.
She said that despite the shelling and the injuries, the workers stood by her. “I salute them.”
Quoting former Punjab law minister Rana Sanaullah, she said that the party will provide legal assistance to the arrested and detained workers.
However, NAB accused the PML-N leader and her party workers of resorting to “organised violence” when she had been asked to appear before the anti-graft body to give clarification on corruption allegations against her.
She even tweeted a picture of the ‘smashed’ windshield of her bulletproof car.
My windscreen. Smashed. pic.twitter.com/2gODzAHQdr
— Maryam Nawaz Sharif (@MaryamNSharif) August 11, 2020
She tweeted pictures of party workers injured during the clash, accusing police and NAB of resorting to brutality.
مسلم لیگ ن کے mayor کرنل مبشر بھی نیب دہشت گردی کا شکار pic.twitter.com/BHckTbRewJ
— Maryam Nawaz Sharif (@MaryamNSharif) August 11, 2020
This is my car. This is my security that kept shielding me without any protection & defence. I salute each one of them. https://t.co/GGEvSBX7ZR
— Maryam Nawaz Sharif (@MaryamNSharif) August 11, 2020
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