PML-N Chief Organizer Maryam Nawaz has directed party leaders to start membership drive in Islamabad, besides conveying party’s narrative to the masses, reported 24NewsHD TV channel on Sunday.
She issued these directions while chairing a meeting of party’s central body in Islamabad district.
She said youth should be included in the party. Steps should be taken to attract students, women and general public to join PML-N.
The chief organizer said that students in the universities should be invited to be part of the PML-N.
She said senior leaders should act as ambassadors of the party and increase its membership.
Maryam said membership programme was started in Lahore and the results were quite astonishing. The response was better than expected.
Earlier on Saturday, PML-N Senior Vice President Maryam Nawaz had said that although ‘selectors’ had left Imran Khan, the PTI chairman was still looking for their help to regain power.
Making a jibe at former chief justice Saqib Nisar, she said the then CJP had issued a ‘certificate’ of being ‘truthful and sagacious’ to Imran Khan, but today scandals of corruption allegedly committed by the PTI chairman and his misuse of authority were coming to the fore.
“The committee that selected you (Imran Khan) in 2018 has broken. Selectors have not only gone home, but they are regretting their decision to bring you to power,” Maryam Nawaz said at a party’s workers convention.
Referring to a recent statement of Qamar Javed Bajwa in which the former army chief said Imran Khan had become a ‘threat’ to the country, she said: “They [her party] have been saying this for the last three years but no one believed it.”
Without naming the former chief justice, she said “Baba Rehmat” had proved himself as “Baba Zahmat (symbol of trouble)”.
She said the ex-CJP had declared Imran Khan a pious man but later he was found involved in various corruption cases.
“Use as many as plasters as you [Imran] can on your leg, you have to be held accountable for your corruption in the Toshakhana gift selling case, foreign funding case, for not declaring your daughter in the nomination papers and for diamond rings that the former first lady took as kickbacks and commission,” she said.
Commenting on the economic crisis, she said those who ruled the country for four years were responsible for the problems being faced by people today.
Ms Nawaz blamed Imran Khan for skyrocketing inflation in the country due to his agreement with the IMF. “Imran Khan is hiding in Zaman Park after mortgaging the country with IMF,” she added.
“On the other hand, Nawaz Sharif had also inked an agreement with IMF but did not raise prices. The wheat flour was available at Rs35 per kg during his [Nawaz’s] entire tenure whereas GDP growth was over 6 percent as compared to negative growth during Imran’s regime,” she claimed.
Nawaz Sharif, she said, was called back whenever the country was plunged into crisis by incompetent rulers.
Reporter: Awais Kiyani