Islamabad (Web Desk): Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) vice-president Maryam Nawaz on Thursday reappeared on media after an absence of almost four months.
Speaking to media men in Islamabad along with senior PML-N leaders, Maryam Nawaz said that she had remained silent over the past few months due to some personal reasons but it did not mean that her resolve had weakened.
"My resolve to stand by civilian supremacy and Constitution has strengthened, not weakened," the PML-N leader said adding that she could not be scared or subdued.
Maryam said that her father went abroad for medical treatment and [when he left] his life was in danger.
"Now he is better than before. I don't want to cause him pain and do not want him to abandon treatment and return because of me," she said.
The PML-N’s vice-president said that she was under her party's discipline and would come forward to play her role on the instruction of party leadership and her seniors.
Maryam negated the media reports regarding Nawaz Sharif’s refusal to go through treatment without his daughter’s presence in London.
"This is completely false, he did not say that," she said adding that her father was hospitalised twice and everything was booked and by chance, both times, her court hearing was scheduled around the time.
She said that the procedure of Mian Nawaz Sharif’s further treatment was scheduled to take place after which her father had said that he could wait for a day or two to get the procedure done if Maryam was permitted to travel otherwise ‘they would see once the hearing was over’.
This is pertinent to mention that Maryam Nawaz cannot travel abroad as her name is on the no-fly list and she was ordered by the Lahore High Court (LHC) to surrender her passport in order to secure bail in the Chaudhry Sugar Mills' case last year.
In February, PML-N president Shehbaz Sharif had stated that Nawaz's medical procedure had been delayed twice because Maryam could not travel to London.
