ISLAMABAD: In an apparent reference to ‘political engineering’ by the country’s ‘establishment’, Maryam Nawaz has said that “not everyone is Nawaz Sharif who refrains from unmasking the institutions despite receiving repeated wounds [at their hand]”.
The daughter of the deposed prime minister took to Twitter on Saturday to express her views.
She said her father’s patience was for the sake of Pakistan’s security, protection and integrity, and urged his naysayers not to put him to test by linking his fortitude to weakness.
Maryam went on to say that her father would break his silence if the opponents used it to mar the country’s interests.
Earlier in the day, PSP chief Mustfa Kamal claimed that it was the establishment that had helped the short-lived alliance take place between the MQM-P and his party. He went on to claim that the MQM-P itself was created in the room of then Pakistan Rangers Sindh DG Major Bilal Akbar.
Reacting to the statement, Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) leader Qamar Zaman Kaira said the establishment should stop meddling into politics and a judicial commission should be formed to investigate the real story behind the brief alliance between the MQM-P and the PSP.
“[PSP chief] Mustafa Kamal has made allegations of a serious nature and they must be investigated,” Kaira told reporters in Lahore.
“If there is any truth to Kamal’s statements, relevant action must be taken against those involved.”
The PPP leader said the government had been formed through elections, and “interference in politics should stop now”.
Taking a jibe at the former premier, Kaira said that Nawaz along with his brother Shehbaz and nephew Hamza would soon be disqualified following the surfacing of the Hudaibiya Paper Mills case details.
He said that after the apex court’s detailed verdict, the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz chief had now received the answer to the question he repeatedly posed, as to why he was ousted from the premier’s post.
“Judges have never been insulted so much in the past as they are being now by the PML-N leaders,” he added.
Published in Daily Times, November 12th 2017.
