I have received resignations of 159 out of 160 MPAs in Punjab Assembly.

LAHORE -- Dispelling the impression that Opposition Leader in the National Assembly Shehbaz Sharif was thinking about going against former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, PML-N Vice President Maryam Nawaz on Saturday said that such efforts proved a futile exercise in the past.

Talking to the newsmen at Jati Umra before leaving for Sindh to attend rally on the death anniversary of former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, she said that Shehbaz Sharif could have become the Prime Minister by ditching his elder brother.

Before departing for Garhi Khuda Baksh, Maryam also addressed a PML-N workers' convention in Sukkur.

'Shehbaz rejected all offers and remained loyal to his brother', she said.

To a question about recent meeting of Pakistan Muslim League-Functional (PML-F) leader Muhammad Ali Durrani with Shehbaz Sharif, Maryam claimed that these people reached Kot Lakhpat Jail after not getting a positive response from other party leaders.

'We have received several messages for negotiations. Even federal ministers contacted us. On not getting a positive response, they sent people to Kot Lakhpat Jail', she said while raising the question that how such people reached there when even his family members were not allowed to meet him. Answering own question, she said that the scenario was quite clear that the present regime desperately wanted dialogue. 'PML-N Quaid has made a very determined decision.

All parties are clear that there is no need of talks with the fake government. We will not give NRO to the puppet Prime Minister', she said.

'Though parties in the PDM had different ideologies, all are united for Pakistan and supremacy of the Constitution', she said. She said that attempts of creating rifts in the family failed in the past and the same would happen now.

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'Shehbaz Sharif remained loyal to his brother and the party.

If he was not loyal, he could have become the PM. In that case, there was no need to impose inefficient puppet PM. But he rejected all such offers and now he and his son Hamza Shehbaz are behind the bars', she said, adding, Shehbaz Sharif was paying the price of standing with his brother despite all odds. Similarly, she said, all efforts of forcing PML-N lawmakers to ditch the party would also get the same fate.

'They tried to do that with JUI-F but it backfired. Our lawmakers know that the PTI has no future. People are well aware now...