PPP Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari has hailed Punjab Chief Minister Maryam Nawaz Sharif for assuming office as the first female provincial chief executive in Pakistan.

Addressing a PPP-PML-N parliamentary party meeting in Lahore, Bilawal said: “Your election [as the CM] is a message for Pakistan and Punjab. All the women are looking towards you as an example.”

The former foreign minister also praised CM Maryam’s decision to announce a Ramazan package for the poor segments of the society.

“The Ramazan package announced also gives out a message that you want to help the poor class of the society who are in the majority. But when we come to the assembly and form a government, we never become representatives of the poor. We should always first aim to solve their problems,” Bilawal said.