ISLAMABAD: The accountability court verdict has started a debate across the nation about the way this will affect the voters during the upcoming polls.
According to a local media report, it had been predicted by the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) supports and the ‘neutral observers’ that the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) voters will silently boycott the polls.
However, there are speculations that the verdict is likely to get Sharif sympathy votes for being the ‘victims of a harsh court verdict’.
In serious discussions on politics, much importance continues to be attached to the sympathy that an event can generate for a politician or a party and how this wave can result in a healthy harvest of votes.
According to an analysis by the media house, it was reported that the verdict shows that the PML-N cannot do without right now, but they have Shehbaz Sharif engaging the establishment on his party’s behalf.
They must have anticipated the crossroads where the Sharifs find themselves now and must have decided that the party would persevere with the Shehbaz model in the event of a verdict which they must have seen coming.
It further stated that using Begum Kulsoom as a ‘bait’ was an act of resistance, of defiance, which would all be brought to nothing if this resistance is not crowned by a return to homeland now that the verdict has been passed
It had been also stated that the general perception that Nawaz Sharif’s party is inherently less equipped to elicit sympathy out of people.
