In a scathing criticism of the former ruling party Pakistan Tehreeke-e-Insaf (PTI) amid its electoral symbol woes, Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) Senior Vice-President Maryam Nawaz Monday said that a “terrorist group” could not be given a political party’s electoral symbol, Geo News reported.
Kicking off the party’s election campaign for the upcoming February 8 polls, the PML-N chief organizer fired a fresh salvo against Khan’s party dubbing it as a group of terrorists for orchestrating and carrying out May 9 violent attacks.
As she took a jibe at the former prime minister’s disqualification in the Toshakhana case, she emphasized, ‘Your electoral symbol should be the watch that you stole or the petrol bomb that you hurled on police officials.’ This comes after the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) found the PTI founder guilty of corrupt practices, reinforcing the notion that ‘what goes around comes around.
کہتے ہیں کہ چور چوری سے جاتا ہے ہیرا پھیری سے نہیں , کل پرسوں سے بڑا شور مچا رہے ہیں کہ ہمارا انتخابی نشان واپس لے لیا گیا ہے۔ تمہارا انتخابی نشان بلا نہیں ڈنڈا تھا جو تم نے اپنے ہاتھ میں پکڑا ہوا تھا۔چیف آرگنائزر مسلم لیگ (ن) مریم نوازشریف#پاکستان_کے_لئے#اوکاڑہ_میں_امید_سحر pic.twitter.com/VNUdQ8PY7m
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Challenging common perceptions, your electoral symbol was not a bat; instead, it was a baton used to attack military installations The baton has been snatched from your hand,” she maintained.
PTI was Facing a Result
Maryam said the PTI was facing was a result of what they sowed against others. Imran was used to being a blue-eyed boy, she said. Emphasizing a stance of non-retaliation, she clarified that neither the PML-N nor Nawaz was seeking revenge on the PTI.
The one who used to call others thieves himself stole watches from the Toshakhana, she said.
“The facility to get [desired] verdicts by calling [judge’s] mother-in-law is not available anymore,” Maryam claimed, adding that they should ask their lawyers to appear in court fully prepared.
Maryam said they would have thought they could win an election like 2018 by shutting down the RTS button. The facility was no longer available, she said. She said his umpires and forgery both were exposed.
Luring the rally’s participants to vote for the PML-N, she said the faster and more you vote for the party the sooner you will become prosperous, inflation will drop and utility bills will be deflated.
Stamp the Lion Symbol on Election Day
“You have to stamp the lion symbol on election day. Stamp on lion symbol on February 8 to make the country rich. Our government’s entire focus will be on cutting inflation. My main focus will be on improving youth’s future,” she said.
The Imran Khan-founded party on Saturday night took a major blow ahead of the February 8 general elections as the top court deprived it of its sought-after electoral symbol in a ruling on the Election Commission of Pakistan’s (ECP) petition.
The country’s top poll organizing authority had assailed the Peshawar High Court’s (PHC) January 10 order, which had provided a relief to the former ruling party by restoring ‘bat’ as its electoral symbol. This decision bars the PTI from retaining its electoral symbol for the upcoming polls, citing irregularities in their internal polls.