By Irum Saleem
Designer Khadijah Shah who spent several months in jail in May 9 cases is ready to relinquish her US citizenship to accept a reserved National Assembly seat for women on the PTI’s ticket.
PTI supremo Imran Khan had offered her the PTI seat. The Pakistani law prohibits dual nationals from serving as members of parliament.
Ms Shah who was paraded from one city to anthor in a number of cases during her incarceration.
“Making the decision to relinquish my US citizenship, which guarantees freedom, safety, and opportunity, was not easy. However, Pakistan is my motherland, the place I call home, and the country where I’ve built my life. I cannot give up on it and my people,” Ms Shah wrote in an Instagram post on Wednesday.
“I have experienced unimaginable injustice over the last year and a half but that the adversity instilled a sense of purpose within me. I am honoured that Chairman PTI and my lifelong hero, Imran Khan, considered me worthy of representing his party and being part of his vision for Pakistan. I accepted his offer to take the reserved seat and hope to live up to his expectations and those of my fellow citizens,” she said.
It will be interesting to see Ms Shah leading the PTI women folk in the parliament.
And let’s see if the Shehbaz government manages to stop the PTI women on reserved seats enter the parliament through controversial legislation. PAK DESTINY
