I’m Nawaz Sharif’s daughter, won’t beg for charity: Maryam
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DG KHAN: Punjab Chief Minister Maryam Nawaz on Thursday inaugurated electro — electric bus service — in Dera Ghazi Khan, as she remains focused on providing modern public transport to people across the province.
She ridiculed the PPP leadership for repeatedly calling for seeking international help to deal with the devastation caused by recent floods and using a natural disaster for political gains. Unwanted advices were being given to the Punjab government to beg for aid on daily basis, the chief minister remarked .
“I am Nawaz Sharif’s daughter. I won’t beg for charity,” Maryam remarked and warned that she would not allow anyone to raise a finger at Punjab.
“Those chanting the slogan of south Punjab [province] have nothing for southern Punjab,” Maryam said at the inauguration ceremony.
To prove her point, she said the same people [doing politics in the name of south Punjab] had always entered the power corridors from same south Punjab.
A dividing line was being drawn by repeating the chants of south Punjab, Maryam warned and made it clear that “I am the chief minister of entire Punjab, not southern, northern or central”.
REMINDER ABOUT TAKHT-E-MULTAN AND OTHERS
Responding to the repeated allegation, she reminded the audience that if there is a “Takht-e-Lahore” then there are “Takht-e-Multan”, “Takht-e-Bahawalpur”, “Takht-e-Rahim Yar Khan”, “Takht-e-Dera Ghazi Khan”, “Takht-e-Mianwali”, “Takht-e-Rawalpindi” as well.
Taking a jibe, Maryam said while she sits on the ground with the people to have food, they [traditional political elite] occupy chairs with the citizens sitting on the ground in front of TV cameras.
CLIMATE CHANGE AND PUBLIC TRANSPORT
Earlier on Wednesday, Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif told world leaders that Pakistan would increase the share of renewables, including the hydropower, to 62 per cent in its energy mix by 2035.
Read more: Pakistan to increase share of renewables to 62% in energy mix
Another announcement that he made, in his address the Climate Summit 2025 on the sidelines of UN General Assembly, was shifting 30 per cent of public transport in the country to environment-friendly energy sources by 2030.
BISP
On Thursday, Maryam also addressed the latest controversy over not using the Benazir Income Support Programme (BISP) for providing assistance to the flood-hit population.
“The BISP gives Rs10,000 to a [registered] person,” which, she said, won’t help a person whose suffered losses in lacs or millions.
“What we should with the financial resources of Punjab if I do not use these resources of Punjab on the people,” she questioned.
“We will provide Rs1,000,000 to every person whose house was destroyed,” the chief minister reminded the gathering.
Asking President Asif Ali Zardari to admonish the PPP spokespersons, Maryam, however, said she neither wanted to talk about BISP nor the state of affairs in Sindh.
On the other hand, she also warned that anyone damaging the electric buses would punished after some incidents of throwing stones on these vehicles were reported from Mianwali and other cities.
FOUR BUS ROUTES
Earlier, the chief minister inaugurated the electric bus service in DG Khan under which citizens will get modern transport on four routes.
On the occasion, she advised the drivers and conductors to serve the passengers kindly as the PML-N supporters showered flowers on the buses passing through the roads.
Later in a post shared on X, Maryam said, “Out of 200 new buses, 101 have been dedicated to the DG Khan division: 24 for DG Khan, 17 for Muzaffargarh, and 15 each for Layyah, Rajanpur, Taunsa and Kot Addu.”
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