Maryam Nawaz is campaigning for the election of her mother, Kulsoom Nawaz, in father’s former Lahore constituencyWatching her campaign, one would think Maryam Nawaz was running for election. In fact, she is canvassing for her parents, defending the legacy of her father, Nawaz Sharif, Pakistan’s recently ousted prime minister, and fighting for the election of her mother, who has been picked to succeed him in parliament. Eyeing an opening, opposition parties have descended on the Lahore constituency, carpeting streets in posters and flooding boulevards with supporters. For some voters, the allegations of corruption, exposed in the 2016 Panama Papers leak, were enough to dismiss Nawaz Sharif. “People’s opinion about Nawaz Sharif is changing.

Source: The Guardian September 16, 2017 03:56 UTC