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In an apparent reference to the PTI, PML-N Chief Organiser Maryam Nawaz on Monday said a “terrorist party” could not be allotted an electoral symbol as her party kicked off its poll campaign in Okara.
After much ado, the PML-N is finally set to unveil its manifesto for the February 8 general elections. For the last two months, the party’s over 30 different sub-committees have been sitting together to prepare its poll manifesto.
PML-N supremo Nawaz Sharif had been perturbed by his party being labelled as the ‘favourite’ of the establishment, an impression he desperately wanted to dispel during the election campaign, an insider had told Dawn.
Addressing party supporters in Okara today, Maryam — without mentioning the PTI — said: “Sher [lion] can be allotted sher, but a terrorist party cannot be allotted an election symbol like other political parties.” .
“You say your electoral symbol was ‘bat’, no, it was the danda [baton] that you had in your hand. The baton that you used against the state of Pakistan and the public,” Maryam claimed.
Her remarks come just days after the PTI was stripped of its iconic electoral symbol ‘bat’. After marathon hearings over the weekend, the Supreme Court had on Saturday upheld the Election Commission of Pakistan’s decision to revoke the party’s electoral symbol and reject its internal polls.
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