Send Imran packing with power of the vote, says Maryam.

ISLAMABAD -- Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) Vice President Maryam Nawaz on Wednesday purported that it was time for the public to send the sitting prime minister packing with the power of the vote.

Addressing a rally of the Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM) organised by her party, Maryam expressed that she feels deeper sympathy for the region of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) when compared to the other provinces, as they had been facing 'theft' for the last eight years.

Maryam said that the stove of the poor was burning in the era of PML-N, in the previous government flour, sugar, pulses, eggs were cheap including gas and petrol. She pointed out that the economic growth rate during the rule of Nawaz Sharif had been 5.8 per cent.

Comparing this to the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) government, she said that that the growth rate 'had gone underground', underscoring that the price of flour had risen from Rs35 per kg to Rs80, and how a simple roti that used to cost Rs5 now costs Rs20.

The PML-N vice-president said that wherever the PTI members would contest the elections, they would be defeated. I want to tell the people that when PTI come to ask for votes, show them the electricity and gas bills and medicine slips and tell them with what grace they have come to ask for votes, she added.

Earlier in the day, Maryam urged the government to resolve the issue of purportedly missing persons, wherein she 'appealed' to the government to 'at least inform' their families if their relatives were 'dead or alive'.

Maryam was speaking to reporters at D-Chowk in Islamabad where the families of missing persons in Balochistan have gathered for days now in a camp outside the National Press Club, demanding the recovery of their loved ones.

Urging the top military leadership to resolve the matter, she said: 'I want to say this to the army chief and DG ISI [Inter-Services Intelligence] as well: They are citizens of your country, they are your daughters, your mothers.'

'Produce people, who are alive, in courts and those are not [alive], at least tell the families that they are dead.'

At the protest site, Maryam also met Sammi Baloch, daughter of Dr Deen Muhammad, who was 'abducted' by unknown men in 2009. For over 11 years, Baloch, now 22, gathered outside the Quetta Press Club, wanting to know who took her father.

On the occasion, Maryam also censured the PTI government for failing to reach out to the protestors.

'If you cannot recover their loved ones, at least...