Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz Senior Vice President and Chief Organiser Maryam Nawaz has asked whether Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf\u2019s (PTI) defiant Chairman Imran Khan would accept results if her party sweeps the upcoming general elections in Punjab \u2014 once a stronghold of the PML-N. She also reiterated that the elections will be held only after the scales of justice are balanced.
\nTalking to a delegation of PML-N lawyers wing, who called on her in Lahore on Sunday, Maryam asked: \u201cWho will give a guarantee that Imran Khan will accept results if PML-N wins elections in Punjab?\u201d She added that the PTI chief may accuse Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif of rigging after the elections.
\nHer statement came following PTI\u2019s severe criticism against the incumbent government after the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) postponed the general elections in Punjab \u2014 initially scheduled to be held on April 30 \u2014 citing security reasons as the major cause behind the change of plan.
\nThe PML-N stalwart said that there is no other way to steer the country out of the crisis but the holding elections for political stability.
\nBerating the former prime minister \u2014 who was ousted via a parliamentary vote in April last year \u2014 Maryam claimed that Khan was brought into power through “facilitators”.
\nThose who brought him into power, later realised they committed a big mistake, she added.
\nTurning her guns towards the judiciary, she said that former prime minister Nawaz Sharif was ousted from office for not taking salaries from his son.
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