Journey of progress & development to restart in AJK,

BaGH _PML-N chief organiser Maryam Nawaz s condemning the PTI chief for the May 9 attacks, the PML-N leader said that the Azad Jammu and Kashmir prime minister was “testifying against Imran Khan”. She claimed that the AJK premier had identified the PTI chief as the May 9 attacks planner.

“The person hiding in the bunker will be made an example [for everyone],” said Maryam without naming Khan and his current residence — Zaman Park in Lahore — where he has been living since he got injuries in an assassination attempt in Wazirabad on November 3 2022.

Addressing a rally in Azad Kashmir, the PML-N senior vice president said the nation would not forgive those who meted out ill-treatment to the martyrs. Former PM had, she alleged, also struck a deal on Kashmir with former US president Donald Trump. “The people will make an example of such people who are hiding in a bunker,” she added. PML-N chief organiser Maryam Nawaz said on Monday the party that attempted to ruin PML-N suprmo Nawaz Sharif’s politics was in tatters.

She went on to say that people would not respect anyone who burnt graves of martyrs, adding that the arsonist did not belong to the country. “Anyone who vandalised martyrs’ scriptures could not be a Pakistani,” she added. Counting the feats of her father Nawaz Sharif’s tenure, she said if nine years of Mr Sharif’s term were excluded from 75 years of the country, nothing would be found on ground. “Who do you remember when you come across the politics of vanadalism and hate,” she asked.

When someone had nothing to show on ground, she said, he committed such acts [of May 9]. The PML-N leader said Mr Sharif also faced troubles and hurdles during his life but he never allowed anyone to harm the country. She went on to say that Mr Sharif was the son of Kashmir, adding that no one could dare level allegation of embezzlement against the AJK’s PM belong to the PML-N. “I ask you to vote for Mushtaq Minhas, and for the party that initiated development projects in the region,” she added.

The PML-N government, she said, would complete the construction of cardiology hospital. “The time is not far when the streets will resound with the name of Mr Sharif,” she added.

Maryam, while saluting the martyrs, said that those who desecrate the martyrs’ monuments are not Pakistani — referring to the May 9 arsonists who vandalised Jinnah House and other military installations soon after the arrest of the PTI chairman in the Al-Qadir Trust corruption case.

She added that the May 9 incidents brought tears to the “eyes of the heirs of the martyrs”.

“Whoever treated the martyrs like this, the nation will not forgive them,” she further said.

Maryam, the scion of the Sharif family’s political dynasty, went on to say that the PTI chief sold Kashmir while sitting with former US president Donald Trump.

“Soldiers stand on the mountains and put their lives at risk for the homeland. Salute to those who sacrifice their lives for our safety,” she also said.

On the exodus of PTI leaders from the party, she asked the crowd where the PTI was, saying that it “went back to where it came from”.

“The party which made a plan to end Nawaz Sharif’s politics is in crumbles. Those who used to say that they will make them cry are crying day and night,” the PML-N’s stalwart said.