A HANDOUT photo shows Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz vice president Maryam Nawaz waving to party workers in Wazirabad on Monday.
GUJRAT/LAHORE: Pakistan Muslim League (PML-N) vice president Maryam Nawaz has said her party expresses sympathy with the PTI old guard who, despite having been steadfast with Prime Minister Imran Khan for 22 years, could not get party tickets for the Senate elections because these loyal workers can neither afford the expenditure of Mr Khan’s 300-kanal Banigala palace nor arrange a plane ride for him.
Addressing a rally organised by the PML-N for party’s candidate Talat Manzoor Cheema for the by-election in PP-51 Wazirabad on Monday evening, she said Imran Khan had given the Senate tickets to billionaires by ignoring the party loyalists because the MPAs belonging to the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf were slipping away from the hands of the prime minister.
LAHORE: The PML-N and PPP have awarded tickets to their respective candidates for two by-poll seats in Punjab, showing that the Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM) member parties are finding it difficult to reach a consensus to contest next month’s by-elections jointly.
According to PML-N Punjab President Rana Sanaullah, the party awarded tickets to Noshin Iftikhar and Talat Manzoor Cheema for NA-75 and PP-51, respectively. He said both Nawaz and Shehbaz Sharif had approved these nominees.
The PPP has awarded tickets to Sumera Sahi and Ijaz Suma for NA-75 and PP-51.
Earlier, PML-N leaders, especially Maryam Nawaz and Ahsan Iqbal, had said that the PDM’s constituent parties would try to contest the by-polls jointly.