Lahore (October 28, 2017): Maryam Nawaz Sharif has clarified that the statement she should be leading the party was wrongly ascribed to her, adding that there has never been any such decision.
In her message on twitter, clarified what a US newspapers quoted her as telling that the family wanted her to take charge of the part.
In message on twitter, Maryam said: ” The statement that ‘the family decided that I should be leading the party’ is wrongly ascribed to me. There never has been any such decision.”
The statement that ‘the family decided that I should be leading the party’ is wrongly ascribed to me. There never has been any such decision
— Maryam Nawaz Sharif (@MaryamNSharif) October 28, 2017
“Nawaz Sharif is and Insha’Allah will be leading PML-N. I am not even an aspirant. Am happy to be working as PMLN worker,” she added.
Nawaz Sharif is and Insha’Allah will be leading PMLN. I am not even an aspirant. Am happy to be working as PMLN worker.
— Maryam Nawaz Sharif (@MaryamNSharif) October 28, 2017
It is to be mentioned here that in an interview with New York Times, Maryam said: “It’s not a divided house. The Sharif family takes a lot of pride in family values and the family ethos.”
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About her uncle Shehbaz Sharif possibly becoming prime minister, she said: “He’s the most competent person. He’s my hero. I love him to death.”
About the NAB case against he, Maryam said there were no evidence to send her to prison and the victory in the September by-election was evidence that people still stand by her and her party.
“The cases are politically motivated and nothing more than blatant political victimization and pressure tactics,” she told the newspaper. “People remain undeterred, and support for the Pakistan Muslim League has further galvanized.”
She said her family’s resilience has been hardened by decades spent as the target of political rivals and Pakistan’s powerful military establishment. “Prisons, disqualifications, sham trials, house arrests, court cases — been there, done that,” she added.
“I am undeterred, unperturbed, fighting,” she added. She hesitated to directly address whether she had ambitions to become prime minister, saying it was her family’s decision that she take the party’s reins.
As for her personal role, Maryam said that the political chapter of her life has been a recent one. She described her upbringing as relatively traditional, and said that for a long time she “never saw herself in politics,” in a family in which political leadership had long been a man’s game.
Maryam said that it was her grandfather who first recognized her administrative and political potential and appointed her to important positions in the family’s operations. Over the years, she said, her father, too, came to appreciate her abilities. Today, she says, one of her most important skills is the capacity to convey advice and criticism to her father, a man who stubbornly refuses it from others, occasionally persuading him to change his mind.
“People around me tell me I was meant for a certain role,” she said when asked whether she ever saw herself as a future prime minister.
“I don’t know what tomorrow holds,” she said. “But I think I owe it to the people. I need to reach out to them.”
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