An uproar has started over a video of Maryam Nawaz, who became the first Chief Minister of Pakistan’s Punjab province, and Pakistan’s radical Jamaat is asking her about her religion. A video of Maryam Nawaz is going viral on social media, in which Maryam Nawaz is seen touching the feet of her father Nawaz Sharif and taking blessings. According to the report, this video is from the time when Maryam Nawaz won the Chief Ministerial election in the Punjab Assembly and then she came to meet her father.
Maryam Nawaz video viral on social media
This video of Maryam Nawaz is dated February 26, which senior Pakistani journalist Hamid Mir shared on his social media account and asked her, ‘In which religion is this tradition?’ In this video, it is seen that Maryam Nawaz is bending down and touching the feet of her father Nawaz Sharif and Nawaz Sharif is also blessing his daughter by patting her back.
This ritual is in which religion? pic.twitter.com/sRApACcbdW
— Hamid Mir (@Hamidmir01) February 26, 2024
Let us tell you that touching the feet is forbidden in Islam and that is why there has been an uproar in Pakistan. Another Pakistani journalist, Arzoo Kazmi, wrote, ‘It is called Tameez.’ Another user wrote, “When you watch Bollywood movies all your life, an entire scene from the movie comes up on an occasion like this.” Apart from this, another user has said, ‘It is called the religion of honor.’ While Nawaz Sharif’s party leader Chaudhary Ahmad Raza has said, is it wrong to touch the feet of your parents?
Maryam Nawaz became the Chief Minister of Punjab
Maryam Nawaz was born in 1973 in Lahore, Pakistan. She is the daughter of former Prime Minister of Pakistan Nawaz Sharif. Maryam entered Pakistani politics in 2012 and when elected as party president, Maryam led the PML-N to victory in the 2013 Pakistan elections. In the same year, he was appointed as the Chairman of the Prime Minister’s Youth Programme. But he resigned in 2014 after his appointment was challenged in the Lahore High Court.
In 2017, the Supreme Court of Pakistan disqualified Maryam Nawaz from holding public office after the Panama Papers scandal was revealed. The court ruled that Maryam was involved in money laundering. But the PML-N denied the allegations against him and said he was innocent. In 2017 Maryam was also included in the BBC’s 100 Women list, recognizing influential women from around the world. In December 2017, Maryam was included in The New York Times list of the 11 most powerful women in the world in 2017.
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