Maryam Nawaz, while addressing the minorities’ wing convention in NA-120 in Lahore, said the Christian community has lent huge support to her father former prime minister Nawaz Sharif and the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N).
“My Christian brothers and sisters are as zealous in their support as other Pakistanis,” she said on Tuesday.
“Your leader (Nawaz Sharif) believes you are Pakistanis, not a minority,” she added.
Nawaz’s daughter said she is happy to see the enthusiasm of her ‘Christian brothers and sisters’ in the support that they’ve lent to the party.
On September 1, she visited the St Anthony’s Church in Lahore and said that the Convent of Jesus and Mary played a huge part in where she stood in her life.
She also expressed pride at the appointment of the first Christian finance minister. She also mentioned she was “personally very happy” at the ‘angel of Pakistan’s Christian community’ Dr Ruth Pfao being honoured with a state funeral.
During her campaigning, Maryam has time and again insisted that her father’s case is in the public’s court.
She has reiterated that it is imperative that the country’s system—through which ‘dictators such as Pervez Musharraf have become more powerful than the judiciary,’—must be changed.
It is crucial to mention here that the by-poll for the NA-120 seat, which was left vacant after Nawaz’s disqualification by the Supreme Court on July 28, will be held on September 17. A total of 44 candidates will contest the NA-120 by-poll.
