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LAHORE: Punjab Chief Minister Maryam Nawaz on Friday fired a fresh salvo at coalition partner Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP), accusing it of corruption and warning political rivals against targeting her government’s performance.
“One party (PPP) is involved in corruption and the other (PTI) in anarchy. I would like to ask them to follow in the footsteps of the PML-N to serve the people,” Maryam said while speaking at the inauguration of a cardiac transplant centre at the Jinnah Institute of Cardiology here on Friday.
The chief minister’s remarks appear to signal a hardening of PML-N’s stance towards the PPP, which has recently intensified its criticism of the federal and Punjab governments over their political mandate and alleged electoral irregularities in Azad Kashmir.
The latest exchange has exposed growing strains within the ruling alliance, with PPP leaders repeatedly describing the PML-N governments as products of a “Form-47 mandate”, while PML-N leaders have increasingly hit back by questioning the PPP’s record of governance.
