Maryam Nawaz: Another daughter of the east

Pakistan's chatterati is clear: Maryam is political heir to Nawaz Sharif

Maryam Nawaz, the daughter of ousted Pakistan prime minister Nawaz Sharif, deserves a hand even if the Pakistan Muslim League Nawaz's (PMLN's) performance in the recent by-election has been below par.

Although the registered voters have increased, the number of those who voted for the PMLN in 2013, when Nawaz Sharif contested the election as a candidate from the National Assembly 120 (NA120), has gone down. The breach has been filled, seemingly, by PMLN voters either shifting to Imran Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI), or, more worryingly, to the Islamist parties.

But the election has signalled two facts to PMLN supporters: One, in