LAHORE: Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif’s daughter Maryam finds fault with the PML-N candidate that led to defeat of the party in by-polls for a provincial assembly seat from Lahore on Oct 11.

N League’s Mohsin Lateef, a maternal cousin of Maryam, has lost to PTI’s Shoaib Siddiqui by a thin margin of a couple of thousands of votes.

“We lost the provincial seat because our candidate had failed to deliver,” she tweeted on Monday evening. But she would not say why Mr Lateef had been granted ticket despite Hamza’s objections, because of the candidate’s poor performance and unpopularity even among PML-N activists.

She would, however, say “PM has made it clear to all, either deliver or go home. Ppl come first.”

In her another tweet, Maryam taunted the PTI leadership for not wholeheartedly accepting defeat in the NA-122 ballot.

“Some people simply don’t have the courage & grace to concede defeat,” she said, advising the PTI leadership: “Don’t embarrass yourself further and let Pakistan prosper.”

Published in Dawn, October 13th , 2015

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