Maryam Nawaz to contest upcoming general election: reports

ISLAMABAD: Former prime minister Nawaz Sharif’s daughter, Maryam Nawaz is likely to take part in the upcoming general elections in 2018, a private news channel reported on Friday.

According to the report, Maryam will contest the election from the NA-120 constituency in Lahore, where Nawaz Sharif was elected in the 2013 elections. Apart from that, Maryam Nawaz may also contest the provincial assembly election from the PP-140 constituency.

Maryam, however, has not yet confirmed the news.

Maryam Nawaz was also recently featured among the top 11 powerful women of the world in a 2017 ranking issued by the New York Times.

She was ranked as the most courageous and most powerful woman of Pakistan and, according to the newspaper, could be hailed as the most suitable heir to the political empire that her father Nawaz Sharif has built.

However, just like her ousted father, Maryam Nawaz also faces a plethora of corruption charges and court cases that have recently seen her family make repeated rounds to the accountability courts of the country.