Maryam Nawaz joins Baloch students protest camp, demands quota restoration

LAHORE: PML-N leader Maryam Nawaz has called for the restoration of special quota for students of impoverished districts of Punjab, Balochistan and FATA.

The PML-N vice president made the remarks in a chat with media during a visit to a protest sit-in being staged by Balochistan’s students seeking restoration of their quota in the state-run universities of Punjab.

Maryam joined the protest camp, saying students are the future of Pakistan. She lamented that students from DG Khan, Rajanpur, [erstwhile] FATA, and Balochistan had to protest after 600 of their reserved seats were abolished.

مجھے بہت افسوس ہے کہ بلوچستان جو کہ پاکستان کا مستقبل ہے یہ سٹوڈنٹس فاٹا ڈی جی خان اور راجن پور کے بچے 12دن سے سڑکوں پہ رُل رہے ہیں اور کسی کو یہ توفیق نہیں ہوئی کہ آکر پوچھے کہ ان بچوں کا مسئلہ کیا ہے؟مریم نواز pic.twitter.com/2Wcer3lghi

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“They [protesting students] say that Punjab is the elder brother but I would say Balochistan is the elder brother,” she said.

She demanded the students’ quota be restored. “These students are demanding the right to education and no one has met them! ” “I am going to Quetta tomorrow, I will also raise the issue of students there,” she added.

Maryam said that Shahbaz Sharif had served Punjab wholeheartedly and that it was “not a favour but the right of the people that they got”.

“Shahbaz Sharif is being held in jail not due to corruption [charges], he is being punished for not going against his brother.”