Zardari and Imran are 'brothers', Maryam tells crowd in Swat
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PML-N leader Maryam Nawaz on Sunday said that Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf Chairman Imran Khan and PPP co-chairman Asif Ali Zardari are brothers that have joined hands under a banner that does not represent the people.
In a fiery speech made while addressing a huge crowd at Kabal in Swat, Maryam said, "These two brothers have joined hands under a banner that does not represent the people of Pakistan."
"You people voted for his party [PTI] in the 2013 election and he took your vote and placed it at Zardari's feet during the Senate elections," Maryam said adding that if Imran has to do the same next time, "he should just tell people to vote directly for the arrow instead of getting them to vote for the bat."
"When you voted for the PTI in the last election, you hoped Imran will work for you, make new roads in Swat, however, he spent the whole term in blocking roads in Punjab and the federal capital."
She added: "Where was Imran when floods hit Swat, or when the dengue infection was prevalent here? Let me tell you where he was, he was in the federal capital being a pawn in someone else's efforts to topple the government."
'Do not make the same mistake again'
Addressing the crowd in Swat, PML-N supreme leader and ousted prime minister Nawaz Sharif said that the people of Swat are very brave for having fought terrorism in the area.
"You people had to leave your homes in the past, but who managed to bring you back?" Nawaz asked the people.
"We managed to bring you back to your homes, just like we brought peace back to Karachi. These were the things your elected leader was supposed to do for you, however, he did not," he said in a reference to Imran Khan, whose party leads the governments in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
"Malala has come back to Pakistan because of the peace that has returned to your area, tell me, do I lie when I say that we have brought peace back to Swat?
"Oh people of Swat, do not make the same mistake again, do not elect a leader who does not care for you," Nawaz said during his speech.
He added: "I know that the people of Swat will make a different decision this time around, they will choose leaders that care about them and their problems."
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Apr 01, 2018 05:12pm
Zardari and Imran are 'brothers': Maryam ---- true !
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Apr 01, 2018 05:14pm
What a nonsense!
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Apr 01, 2018 05:15pm
It really hurts my head when she speaks.
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Apr 01, 2018 05:15pm
What else can she say to stay afloat in the political arena of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, make her presence felt and remain in the media limelight?
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Apr 01, 2018 05:17pm
Roads ? Again politics on roads. Please dont vote for roads, dont see your road to home is carpeted but look into the future of your kids . Your kids should not go abroad for studies and you shall get medical treatment in pakistan. PMLN always beg votes for road. And also for these roads they get commision.
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Apr 01, 2018 05:18pm
It was a master stroke IK played trumping all their brains. Beating the track is useless now. Obviously it hurt's, badly.
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Apr 01, 2018 05:18pm
But Nawaz and Zardari duo is a perfect match made in heaven.
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Apr 01, 2018 05:20pm
PML-N and PPP have been taking turns to share power for years they even used to meet in Jeddah to openly discuss their alliance - Maryam Nawaz is simply desperate and promoting white lies. One should follow the truth.
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Apr 01, 2018 05:20pm
Imran Zardari Bhai Bhai.Shame on PTI.
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Apr 01, 2018 05:22pm
Her narrative is getting sillier!
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Apr 01, 2018 05:25pm
And PMLN and corruption are brothers
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Apr 01, 2018 05:25pm
She is so jealous of IK progress. Keep it up IK make them jealoys even more
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Apr 01, 2018 05:26pm
She has nothing important to say something honest for the people but only persobal hatd against IK.
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Apr 01, 2018 05:27pm
Since you are true representatives of the people here is a challenge for you and your family.
Donate everything you, your parents, your brothers and your husband and children own for the well-being of Pakistan. The incrediably brilliant welfare oriented government that you will bring about will take care of your loved one as it will take care of every single Pakistani. In short I’m challenging you to break from all other politicians and really put your lot with the poorest of the poor and create a government that takes care of your family along with the people of Pakistan.
You will never do it because you like all other are only good for cheap talk.
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Apr 01, 2018 05:29pm
I thought PPP and PMLN were brothers.
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Apr 01, 2018 05:30pm
This is wrong to say that 'government was toppled'. Only one person (PM) of the government was removed from office. While government of the same political party continues to rule the country.
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Apr 01, 2018 05:32pm
Does Maryam Nawaz even deserve to be on the dawn headlines ?
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Apr 01, 2018 05:34pm
Simple, clear and effective message.
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Apr 01, 2018 05:34pm
She looks set to be the next PM.
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Apr 01, 2018 05:35pm
After reading the article only one word comes to my mind
FUNNY!!
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Apr 01, 2018 05:36pm
Didn't Maryam call Zardari her uncle just a while back? Didn't Nawaz Sharif waited for days to meet with Zardari in London just the last year? If PMLN wants to be recognised as an ideological party, then the first step should be recognising their past mistakes before moving forward.
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Apr 01, 2018 05:37pm
People of Swat are independent minded. Fortunately they are not slaves of PML(N), please go back and continue with your corruption in Punjab. We are doing pretty well in KPK. Thanks
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Apr 01, 2018 05:47pm
Sir
Shameless convicted and disqualified ruling family desperately trying to get another chance to poor and plunder!!!
Their destination is jail and bring back the wealth they have looted.
Thanks
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Apr 01, 2018 05:47pm
Nawaz has as much in common with Zardari, as Maryaam has with Ivanka Trump.
Both pairs are mired in controversies, unpopular, selfish, looking for quick profits and capitalizing on connections - at home and abroad.
But Maryaam, rest assured, you will see the inside of a Jail, before you see the insdie of White House again.
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Apr 01, 2018 05:51pm
Dear Politicians, please get on with real stuff that politicians are elected to do. We are getting of the same old mudslinging rhetoric.
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Apr 01, 2018 05:52pm
Let's see. NS has met Zardari several times throughout his political like - in Pakistan, as well as in Dubai and London. Imran Khan detests Zardari like the plague.
So, you can see easily whose brother is who??
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Apr 01, 2018 05:52pm
And so are PMLN and corruption
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Apr 01, 2018 05:54pm
Nawaz Sharif and Maryam Safdar should stop this campaign of disinformation and lies. The people of Pakistan are matured enough not to come in this web of deception.
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Apr 01, 2018 05:56pm
Maryam seems to be running a good campaigne. Watch out ik and az!
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Apr 01, 2018 05:58pm
Desperately trying to hurl insults and accusations toward IK, out of spite - hoping something will stick!
Careful. You may one day end up asking for IK's forgiveness and pardon.
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Apr 01, 2018 05:59pm
Nawaz and Maryam are trying to fool the nation on First of April. Lackluster performance and unconcerned gathering.
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Apr 01, 2018 06:08pm
Whilst I don't fully agree with PTI's policies and political tactics, Maryam and NS are just going crazy in desperation. Pak army brought peace to Swat and Rangers to Karachi. KPK police also played a vital role in bringing peace there. NS's govt failed to vitalise and implement National action plan.
Punjab govt desperately failed to reform police who were responsible for bringing peace. They had to ask Rangers to bring peace to Punjab. What a frivolous argument that IK and Zardari are bai bai? The duo are just trying to fool the public once more.
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Apr 01, 2018 06:09pm
She makes fun of herself and try to seek some attention. Little people
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Apr 01, 2018 06:11pm
She is right. They are like brothers in corruption. But NS is like a father to them (in corruption off course).
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Apr 01, 2018 06:15pm
PPP and PMLN both made people fool. Both are brothers Both are annoying the government seats and luxuries and common man standard of life getting worse day by day.
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Apr 01, 2018 06:16pm
No, Zardari and Nawaz Sharif are bothers and masterminds of corrupt practices and money laundering. Imran Khan is an enemy of corruption and exposing black sheep of our society - this is a fact, as truth always hurts and bitter to swallow!
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Apr 01, 2018 06:23pm
Imran Khan is not a leader but proxy of establishment and foreign forces. He is clearly working to the detriment of Pakistan.
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Apr 01, 2018 06:29pm
Yeah right! and you are a liar as that is what you admitted to on national TV
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Apr 01, 2018 06:35pm
They gave us nothing except loadshedding inflation etc... Cant use my desktop PC for gaming without light how can I use it. So miserable just because of these theives.
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Apr 01, 2018 06:42pm
We voted for NS so he could lead a honest government Instead he looted billions to buy flats in London worth billions What a shame
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Apr 01, 2018 06:50pm
How silly can she get - fact is that Zardari and Nawaz Sharif are masterminds of corrupt practices and, whereas, Imran has exposed their black activities through different means. There is clear a difference in mindsets and dirty politics - truth is always bitter to swallow and hurts!
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Apr 01, 2018 06:56pm
Maryam is bold and modern, that is why the establishment and narrow-minded fundamentalists are against her and her dad. They conspired to keep people distracted while Musharraf is let off the hook.
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Apr 01, 2018 07:01pm
Two things are infinite. The Universe and human stupidity. (Albert Einstein)
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Apr 01, 2018 07:08pm
Do you think the public is blind Sharif?? We see through your corruption, espionage and tyranny.
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Apr 01, 2018 07:24pm
Maryam Nawaz herself created hype, now she looks nervous.
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Apr 01, 2018 07:24pm
Nawaz always stresses on developing motorways and roads. I believe he sees huge commission in such development, after all he is businessman.
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Apr 01, 2018 07:28pm
Nawaz Shariff and Zardari are also brothers in someway.
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Apr 01, 2018 07:29pm
To call Zardari and Imran brothers is like saying black and white are the same color.
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Apr 01, 2018 07:35pm
PMLN brothers survive because of Khursheed Shah and Zardari.
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Apr 01, 2018 07:36pm
Just because your voters got sold out and you lost your senate chairman doesn't mean Imran khan is a brother to Zardari. The brother is someone who drives your car , picks you up from the airport. The brother is someone who has things in common as you have, like corruption, or let's say getting disqualified. Also, brother is the one you tell in speeches that you'll drag him on the roads of Lahore and yet you don/t .. Finally, brothers promise the nation for curbing Loadshedding, but people see absolutely no improvement at all ..
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Apr 01, 2018 07:39pm
Dear Maryam !
Next time , your father, mother, children or you get ill, try to visit the hospitals you built for the general. If you guys do that, you are welcome to boast about your performance... How can someone boast about their performance by failing to make a hospital that could treat them. People of Pakistan must not fall for the things that used to work for politicians before
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Apr 01, 2018 07:50pm
They have nothing concrete to say.
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Apr 01, 2018 07:51pm
All politicians please stick with issues. Personal attack is uncivilized and will not solve anything.
Gutter politics only alienate masses. I wish one party rise up and talk issues and the solution of these problems they offer. There is no free lunch. Country is broke.
How we move forward.
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Apr 01, 2018 07:56pm
Modi, Zardari, Nawaz and Shahbaz are brothers.
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Apr 01, 2018 08:10pm
she is proven liar who said she does own anything anywhere then we found she owns property home and abroad
with stolen money from the poor people of Pakistan. PMLN made roads because they got kickbacks. They did not make a single school a hospital and clean drinking water pump.
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Apr 01, 2018 08:15pm
Zardari, Imran and Nawaz are all brothers in the brotherhood of corruption, nepotism and lawlessness !
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Apr 01, 2018 08:16pm
@Wow Please don’t listen to her !
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Apr 01, 2018 08:21pm
It is so true, Imran Khan literally robbed youngster vote and put it in the feet of one of the most corrupt politician of our time Asif Zardari in the recent senate elections. If same people vote again to PTI history won’t forgive them.
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Apr 01, 2018 08:22pm
What a dumb comment by Maryam.
Only a few years ago Nawaz called Zardari a brother when the latter won the Elections after the death of Benazir Bhutto. Maryam is now crying sour grapes
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Apr 01, 2018 08:26pm
After her calibri font stunt i don't trust if her degrees are real...
It's not her fault trying to become Benazir... its her corrupt father to be blamed...
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Apr 01, 2018 08:42pm
A cruel joke by someone accused of forgery promising bring stars to earth, is very hard to swallow. It is irony of fate for the simple and straight people of Swat and for that matter people of Pushtookhwa to digest white lies with regard to bringing peace to their area. A government reluctant to implement National ActionPlan and not letting army to cleanse Punjab from existing terrorist dens, claiming getting rid of terrorists elsewhere in the country is tentamount to total deceit and manipulation of ground realities. These tall promises of better future are a hoax, if one revisits their trumpeted promise of getting the country free from load shedding and electricity shortages this year around. What we see is back to square one position despite bringing the country under huge financial debt, which will be an uphill task paying back due to precarious financial state we are in. For sure the common man seeking SC's help to solve their civic problems, will not fall prey to these falsehood
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Apr 01, 2018 08:43pm
Wrong madam. Everyone knows PML-N and PPP are two sides of the same coins i.e. both are Corruption Mafias.
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Apr 01, 2018 08:53pm
Pakistan at the moment is lacking true leadership. After quaideazam, Ayub Khan and ZA Bhutto were true leaders. Pakistan went down the drain since 1977 when Zia took over the country until today.
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Apr 01, 2018 09:07pm
incompetent people of the corrupt party has gone brain dead.
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Apr 01, 2018 09:09pm
Once Zardari was your UNCLE.....!!
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Apr 01, 2018 09:17pm
@Arif You ask if the public is blind?
i would say yes, after reading some of the comments here unfortunately.
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Apr 01, 2018 09:20pm
@M. Emad She meant to say Nawaz and Zardari
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Apr 01, 2018 09:21pm
She looks and talks like a mature politician. Future PM, who knows!!!
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Apr 01, 2018 09:22pm
Yes as a Muslim, I believe in brotherhood.
Also true is sharifs are thieves.
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Apr 01, 2018 09:24pm
She and her dad good jokes
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Apr 01, 2018 09:28pm
Sweeping statements nothing else
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Apr 01, 2018 09:29pm
On what ground she gets this much media coverage?
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Apr 01, 2018 09:39pm
She should be in jail for perjury and presenting forged documents to the Supreme Court.
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Apr 01, 2018 09:49pm
It is not possible Imran Khan could join hands with Asif Zardari. They do however believe they represent the people. Imran believes the Sharifs and the Zardaris represent the wealthy interests. If Maryam may believe she cares about the people's interests but we all know her own interests come before the people of Pakistan, especially outside Punjab. She left her mother behind to become front man to gain the woman's vote for the PML-N. We can only hope it never becomes the PML-M.
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Apr 01, 2018 09:53pm
Hello, forgot who was friendly opposition?
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Apr 01, 2018 09:54pm
@Amjad Durrani Engineer- USA - I fully endorse your candid views!
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Apr 01, 2018 09:59pm
Good April fools joke!
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Apr 01, 2018 10:03pm
@Qudseea - you must be joking - how can a person, who is arrogant, politically immutre and have attitude problem be a PM of a nuclear powered country? This is not possible in million years!
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Apr 01, 2018 10:08pm
I pray she becomes next prime minister of Pakistan inshaaAllah women power
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Apr 01, 2018 10:09pm
@Pakistani american - yes, you are right - she is a lier like her father. It is in their gene to lie and make money through corrupt practices and money laundering!
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Apr 01, 2018 10:19pm
No Mr Nawaz Sharif YOU didn’t bring people and peace back to swat and Karachi, army did. The same army you and your daughter don’t get tired of denouncing in every speech. Please have some shame if it is left in you and tell the truth.
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Apr 01, 2018 10:23pm
All the political and religious parties involved in
politics are corrupt but PPP is the worst.
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Apr 01, 2018 10:24pm
@Jamil giodd advice. But so sad and unfortunate that the voters are so naive AND easily foold that they keep voting for these crookst
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Apr 01, 2018 10:26pm
@M. Emad
And yet Nawaz is the one who invites zardari for 36 dishes lunch!
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Apr 01, 2018 10:41pm
She has no clue what she is talking about. somebody write and she speak without thinking. she never did any work in her life time but spending Daddy's black money.
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Apr 01, 2018 10:51pm
BB was assassinated for this purpose.Soon another player ,MR mushrraf will join soon.mark my words.
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Apr 01, 2018 10:52pm
Maryaam, you should be careful what you say in public forum, especially those staged 'rallies'. Ory you may see some shoes flying your way too, like your daddy was subjected to last month!
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Apr 01, 2018 11:54pm
Maryam, the water level is now above the head. You should be planning to save your families from going to jail. Try something else besides being innocent.
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Apr 01, 2018 11:59pm
They cannot befool the people by speaking nonsense.
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Apr 02, 2018 12:18am
MRs. Maryum Safder you have no right to criticise PTI & PPPP until you and your family provide solid proves in the Courts of Pakistan about your current Family financial statuses. .
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Apr 02, 2018 12:22am
The PML-N did not bring people back to Swat -- it was the Army, and the PML-N had no choice but to go along with them.
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Apr 02, 2018 01:07am
It is too late to contain Maryam Nawaz
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Apr 02, 2018 02:23am
How stupid can you be to believe her?
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Apr 02, 2018 02:34am
Just like Nawaz sharif and Asfandyar Wali!!!
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Apr 02, 2018 04:49am
while you and your family continue to lie, submit forged documents, and perjure. poor attempt to divert attention, from the sharif family embezzlements. how ironic being named sharif!
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Apr 02, 2018 05:42am
Zardari, Imran Khan, Nawaz Sherif, Maulanas are all brothers who keep on exploiting poor people
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Apr 02, 2018 07:14am
The sharp tongue speaks again, makes no sense again.
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Apr 02, 2018 07:22am
According to Maryam Nawaz, the Sharifs have never done anything wrong, they are ALL wrongly accused, everyone else is guilty. Everyone is lying, the people, the Supreme Court, the High courts.
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Apr 02, 2018 07:24am
The progress has done in the field of education especially in the primary level is outstanding in KPK govt schools, never in history, we have seen such 100% attendance of the teacher, not only their attendance but also there is routinely checking system of student ability by those education officers who never bother to visit the rural schools. Marium Bibi your father has built a lot of roads even we do not know how many contracts were given to own family members.
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Apr 02, 2018 07:24am
I did not realize that the people voted for roads, here I was thinking we the people voted for better education, better opportunity, better wages, better hospitals, better economy. My bad.
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Apr 02, 2018 12:48pm
Thanks Maryam bibi for the informations. Please also shed some lights and post some photos of your father Nawaz Sharif enjoying king's feasts of 101 dishes together hand in hand on several occassions.
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