"Siyasi goal set karne ke liye hum par ilzam lagaya gaya," Maryam Nawaz claims

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00:00In 2017-18, when we were targeted to settle the political score, we took bullets for it.

00:10We listened to the talks, we faced the allegations, the incident with Nawaz Sharif.

00:18So, it was a great pain for me.

00:22It is not as painful for a thief or a dacoit as it is for this thing.

00:28And it was my mother's election, when she disqualified my father.

00:34So, I had to go alone to treat my mother's cancer.

00:43So, I was running an election campaign for her.

00:47The way a few people and a political party used them, or they used them themselves,

00:58the way I had to face these allegations, it was a very painful process for me.

01:04And you saw that Ahsan Iqbal Sahib belongs to a very religious family.

01:09His mother's status, and she was a very pious woman.

01:17She was also shot. Allah saved her life.

01:21So, I went through this process myself.

01:25And I know how painful this process is.

01:29You are right that in the cases that are delayed, the truth of the allegations should be determined.

01:39The punishment should also be determined.

01:41But no matter what, we should not be given the permission to take the law into our own hands,

01:49to put our own court in the streets and neighborhoods, to issue punishments, to issue fatwas.

01:55We should not be given this permission.

01:58And there is another very painful matter for me.

02:03Allah has made me sit on this chair.

02:06And as I told you, my duty is to do justice.

02:14My duty is to do justice according to my wisdom.

02:20Whenever such a case comes before me,

02:23when someone commits a crime and the crime is proven,

02:30then he is no longer a Muslim, a Sikh, a Hindu, a Christian, he is a criminal.

02:36And he should be punished for his actions.

02:39There was a small incident.

02:41The incident is very big.

02:44But I want to share with you that because I am a mother.

02:52I have three children.

02:55And the responsibility of the children of this province is also on my head, on your head.

03:03Because when you speak, people take effect of it.

03:09A child was abused.

03:12And in that abuse, he had a relationship with a religious person from a madrasa.

03:21His crime was proven.

03:25When he was a small child, he went with his father.

03:32He was abducted from outside the madrasa or outside the mosque.

03:36He was also proven.

03:39But when the police caught him, he was made an issue of religion.