LAHORE: A day after Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) leader Yousaf Raza Gillani was declared as opposition leader in the Senate, Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) Vice President Maryam Nawaz criticised PPP over “sacrificing” the Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM), an anti-government alliance, for a “minor, inconsequential post”. If you [PPP] really wanted the office of the opposition leader, you could have asked Nawaz Sharif for it,” she said. “Nawaz Sharif gave you all 83 of PML-N votes to elect Yousaf Raza Gillani [on a technocrat seat from Islamabad]. He stands with his party and his party has a narrative that he will not betray. She said the PPP co-chairman had “made this proposal inside the PDM that if PML-N wants, then we [PPP], because selectors also want this, want a [change of government] in Punjab”.

Source: Pakistan Today March 27, 2021 11:32 UTC