The decisive moment of Maryam Nawaz

Marie-Antoinette, the Queen of France is the most famous to say "let them eat the cake" when she is informed that her hungry peasant subjects do not have bread. This quote proved his unconsciousness of the way ordinary people lived. She died without entering the world of ordinary mortals.
Like Marie Antoinette the rich, pampered and privileged Maryam Nawaz also had no experience of commoner life up to the night of July 13th. With her was his father Nawaz Sharif whose wealth and power kept him away from direct exposure to the poor.

She traveled business clbad to Pakistan, leaving behind the comfort and wealth of London, as well as her seriously ill mother Kulsoom to taste imprisonment at Rawalpindi Prison Adiala Jail where luxury is a small television. , homemade food and newspapers.

The historical event, which took place about fifteen days before the elections in the country, can be interpreted as a fate. But it is also a kind of political transformation from the lawless ruling elite into a law-abiding elite, who voluntarily submitted to the judicial process despite better options abroad. . Former Pakistani Prime Minister, Nawaz Sharif, was sentenced to 10 years in prison and fined £ 8 million by the Rawalpindi Court of First Instance in the Avenfield case on July 6th.

Maryam, who is widely regarded as Nawaz's political heir, was also convicted and his sentence included seven years in jail and a fine of £ 2 million. Her husband, Captain Safdar, who was sentenced to one year in prison, is already in prison.

Maryam is the first woman sentenced by a Pakistani liability court. But she is not the first woman relative of a politician to face difficulties. Before it was the end Benazir Bhutto . But his suffering was very different.

Benazir grew up in a highly educated, political and aristocratic Sindh family. Having studied abroad, she knew what politics was since her childhood and began to suffer at an early age after General Zia-ul-Haq overthrew her father, Zulfikar Ali Bhutto and his government. The agony is aggravated after the hanging of Bhutto and the murder of his two brothers. She became the premier in 1998 with votes that she attracted mainly because of the political charisma of her late father. She was kidnapped in 1990 but turned out to be a shrewd politician, re-elected as prime minister in 1993. She was abducted after only two years and was murdered in Rawalpindi in 2007 in a terrorist attack.

Born on October 28, 1973, Maryam is the eldest of a wealthy businessman who came to power with the help of the establishment. Although they were wealthy, Nawaz and his family observed the traditions of the middle clbad. Maryam was educated in her native Punjab, married at age 19, and has largely lived a traditional, though privileged, life. She received her first education at the Convent of Jesus and Mary of Lahore. She wanted to become a doctor and was admitted to King Edward Medical College in Lahore in 1945. She left college without completing the curriculum after a controversy broke out about her admission.

Her husband, Captain Safdar, whom she married in 1992, was the Nawaz security officer, who was the country's prime minister at the time. The wedding was a surprise and led to speculation. The couple has three children, a son and two daughters. Her eldest daughter is married to the son of another extremely wealthy person from Rahim Yar Khan town, Chaudhry Munir.

Maryam, who saw the vicissitudes of her father's political life, remained a traditional Pakistani housewife before Nawaz returned to power for the third time in 2013. She was a child when Nawaz was kidnapped as the first Minister by the Pakistani President in 1993 He was reinstated by the Supreme Court but then resigned under pressure and his party lost elections to the Pakistan People's Party of Benazir Bhutto.

He was elected prime minister for the second time in 1997 but his government was overthrown by General Pervez Musharraf in 1999. After the coup, he was convicted of corruption and sentenced to life for to have hijacked the Musharraf plane. The Sharif family was allowed to exile in Saudi Arabia in 2000 after being informed of an agreement with the army. He returned to Pakistan in 2008.
After the election of Nawaz for the third time, Maryam began to emerge as her political heir, causing confusion in the circles of the Pakistan Muslim League (Nawaz) (PMLN), which considered her brother Shehbaz Sharif the triple Minister of Punjab, as the second-commissioned. A 44-year-old grandmother, Maryam showed that she was both politically aggressive and infallibly traditional. She joined the PML-N in 2011 to help her father. In November 2013, she was appointed President of the Premier's Youth Program. But she had to resign the following year after Pakistan's Tehreek-e-Insaf Imran Khan challenged her appointment.

Maryam was noticed after allegedly opening a cell in the information department and the Dawn Leaks scandal emerged. She became politically active after the Nawaz disqualification by the Supreme Court in the Panama Papers case, revealing her bold and daring character.

She led her mother's campaign at the by-elections in the NA-120 district of Lahore last year. His provocative public speeches at his father's rallies across the country as a result of his disqualification and the daring election campaign for his mother were protected by the power of the state and the wealth of the family.

But in April 2016, she was named in the Panama Papers with her brothers and sisters Hasan and Hussain for allegedly hiding their wealth in off-shore tax havens.

Maryam could have chosen to enjoy life in London but she decided otherwise. Will she be deterred by the vagaries of the prison and will she return to the comforts she has left behind, or will she leave a real leader? Because, as they say, the leaders of the subcontinent are chiseled in prisons.

Nawaz Sharif, former Prime Minister of Pakistan, and Maryam were sentenced on July 6