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Mariam Nawaz says it is extremely painful to know I was not by my mother’s side on her deathbed.
Former first daughter Mariam Nawaz said Tuesday night she feels “deeply saddened”. By the fact that she could not be by the bedside of her ailing mother, Begum Kulsoom Nawaz. During her last moments before she passed away.
While speaking to a local channel, before she was flown off from Rawalpindi to Lahore’s Jati Umra for her mother’s funeral. the PML-N leader said: “Today was extremely difficult after learning of my mother’s death.
“It was extremely painful to know that I wasn’t by my mother’s side” as she breathed her last, she added. “I feel deeply saddened.”
Mariam, the daughter of ex-premier Nawaz, also went to voice her appeal to the Pakistani people. To pray that God grants her mother the highest place in Paradise.
Begum Kulsoom was briefly a member of parliament from September 2017 to July 2018 when she won her husband’s former seat in a by-election after the Supreme Court disqualified him.
Up until last year’s ousting of the three-time-premier Sharif, who SC removed from office in each of his elected terms. She had never been a politician, but she memorably led protests. After a 1999 military coup that ended a previous Sharif administration.
With her husband jailed by the then-president General Pervez Musharraf. She broke through a police barricade that then authorities set up around her home in Lahore in July 2000. In an attempt to prevent her from leading a public rally.
She managed to get away in a car, which police chased for several miles. When police finally surrounded the car, she locked herself in for several hours in a standoff until police finally towed the vehicle away.
The Musharraf regime eventually allowed Nawaz and Begum Kulsoom to leave the country, and they spent years in exile until returning in 2007 to contest new elections.
