Former prime minister Nawaz Sharif's daughter Maryam Nawaz on Thursday claimed she was "attacked with multiple conspiracies" during her father's time in public office due to her "closeness to him".

Maryam, who was addressing a PML-N women workers' convention in Lahore as she campaigns for the NA-120 by-poll in her mother's place, claimed that she "tolerated a lot being the daughter and a close companion of Nawaz Sharif during the four years we spent in the prime minister house."

"I was accused in Panama leaks [case] because I stood with Nawaz like a wall and confronted every conspiracy," Maryam told the gathering. "I have no doubt about the fact that whenever there is a crisis, the wives, sisters and mothers are at the fore."

Maryam said that the biggest difference she noticed between her father's campaign for the 2013 General Election and that for Begum Kulsoom's NA-120 campaign now was that all streets and shops now had electricity, which was not the case four years ago.

"When the country was progressing so swiftly, when it was being taken out of darkness and into light, when CPEC was bringing progress in the country, why was this progress hindered? Why was the prime minister removed?" she asked.

Sharif's disqualification has increased his stature and people's love for him, she claimed, adding that during public gatherings, "not a single chair was set up", but people still attended heavily.