Vice-President of Pakistan Muslim League Nawaz (PML-N), Maryam Nawaz’s controversial tweet on the cancelation of series between Pakistan and New Zealand has lent her into trouble.
The PML-N leader tried to use the New Zealand fiasco for her political gains and received plenty of backlash on Twitter.
“I will make the world respect green passport,” she wrote, pointing to an indirect reference to Prime Minister Imran Khan’s statement after assuming power.
It could have been received differently on any given day. But in the current circumstances, when the entire nation is shocked and saddened by the abrupt end to New Zealand’s tour of Pakistan, people lashed out at Maryam Nawaz for playing politics at a time when everyone should be on one page.
Her own spokesperson, Muhammad Zubair, seemed to disagree with Maryam Nawaz.
New Zealand cricket teams decision to leave the country after being here for 6 days is terrible. There is no basis to cause such an embarrassment. Security was fool proof. They shouldn’t have come in the first place. Pakistan should protest at the highest play. Pathetic
— Mohammad Zubair (@Real_MZubair) September 17, 2021
Federal Minister for Energy, Hammad Azhar, asked the PML-N leader not to go too far in enmity of Prime Minister Imran Khan and show loyalty towards the country.
ہم سے بےشک نفرت کرو لیکن میری دھرتی کی کچھ تو نمک حلالی کرو جس کی دولت سے باہر جائدادیں بنائیں۔ https://t.co/hZtKVwv1fC
— Hammad Azhar (@Hammad_Azhar) September 17, 2021
Angry social media users termed this a treacherous act and questioned Mryam’s loyalty to the country.
https://twitter.com/MalikAhmedHaya4/status/1438865566274576385
Another user said that Maryam’s tweet has hurt him more than the cancelation of the series.
یقین کریں دکھ اس بات کا نہیں کہ نیوزی لینڈ نے دورہ پاکستان منسوخ کردیا، وہ تو چلو غیر ہیں ان سے کیا گلہ۔۔
دکھ اس بات کا ہے کہ جو خود کو پاکستانی کہتے ہیں اور پاکستانیت کا راگ الاپتے ہیں انکا پاکستان کے خلاف محاذ کھولنا بہت دکھ دے رہا ہے۔@MaryamNSharif
کوئی شرم۔۔😡😡#PAKvNZ— Gohar Ali (@GoharSpeaks) September 17, 2021
Another fan pointed out that Maryam took less than ten minutes to score a political point, while she was 18 hours late to tweet on the demise of esteemed Kashmiri leader, Syed Ali Geelani.
نیوزی لینڈ ٹیم کے دورہ منسوخی کی خبر کے ٹھیک دس منٹ پراس عورت نےٹویٹ کیا جس نےحریت رہنماکی موت کےاٹھارہ گھنٹے بعد ٹویٹ کیا تھااور ابھی ٹویٹ میں
عمران خان پرتنقید کرتےخوشی کا اظہار کیااتنی گھٹیا عورت ہےجیسے ملک کی بدنامی پر خوشی ہو رہی ہےاب ہم کواندرونی دشمنوں کو پہچان لیناچاہیے— 𝐒𝐚𝐐𝐢𝐁 𝐰𝐚𝐫𝐫𝐢𝐚𝐂𝐡 (@saqib_warriach_) September 17, 2021
Another Twitter user shared her tweet, saying, “We have been feeding snakes.”
https://twitter.com/RealWaqarMaliks/status/1438842926696747009
What are your thoughts on the tweet? Let us know in the comments section.
Put Ban on PMLN
do some work, putting ban on reality won’t make a difference
Shame on n league and also his supporters. Plz support Pakistan not anti Pakistan peoples. My foot NZ
Pro Pakistani is actually pro PTI.
You are sharing partial tweets, there are thousands of tweets on other side too, it is a PTI failure clearly, they need to stop looting the country and start doing some work. When Najam sethi and his team can convince international players to come to Pakistan under the peak of insurgency then they should be able to get NZ team to stay in Pakistan too and not run away.
Where is BRT peshawar, where is Dollar under 100 ruppee, where are 1 crore jobs?
Stop blaming opposition and start doing some genuine work.
U don’t talk about inflation n bad goverence but u r reporting this of Maryam why don’t u talk bot the other issues is Ur page a political one or what sort of context