{"id":8277,"date":"2024-02-21T17:23:43","date_gmt":"2024-02-21T17:23:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/voiceofmelange.global\/?p=8277"},"modified":"2024-02-21T17:23:45","modified_gmt":"2024-02-21T17:23:45","slug":"the-first-ever-woman-to-serve-the-coveted-post-in-the-countrys-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voiceofmelange.global\/?p=8277","title":{"rendered":"The first-ever woman to serve the coveted post in the country\u2019s history"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"940\" height=\"747\" data-id=\"8279\" src=\"https:\/\/voiceofmelange.global\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/IMG_20240221_222300.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8279\" srcset=\"https:\/\/voiceofmelange.global\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/IMG_20240221_222300.jpg 940w, https:\/\/voiceofmelange.global\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/IMG_20240221_222300-300x238.jpg 300w, https:\/\/voiceofmelange.global\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/IMG_20240221_222300-768x610.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 940px) 100vw, 940px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>LAHORE: Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) Senior Vice-President Maryam Nawaz, who is now going to be the chief minister of Punjab \u2014 the first-ever woman to serve the coveted post in the country\u2019s history \u2014 has pledged to the people of the province of \u201cliving up to\u201d their expectations while fulfilling her duties as the provincial chief executive.She was nominated as the party\u2019s candidate for the coveted slot after her victory from both the national and provincial assembly seats \u2014 NA-119 and PP-159, respectively \u2014 in the February 8 general elections.Addressing a meeting in Lahore, the Punjab CM-hopeful thanked the people for giving her party \u201cthe mandate\u201d and brought it success as the single biggest political party to have the majority in the 2024 polls.\u201cYour trust and support are my real assets,\u201d Maryam asserted, praying that she could serve the people in the \u201cbest way possible\u201d.The PML-N leader also said that she wants to dedicate the honour of becoming the \u201cfirst woman CM\u201d to every mother, daughter and sister of the country.Sharing her plans for the governance of Punjab, she said that the party has devised a roadmap of its priorities at the government and party level.\u201cThe members of provincial assembly will be my arms and strength. The 297 constituencies of Punjab will be districts for me,\u201d Maryam said.She further stated that health, education, infrastructure, law and order, agriculture, information technology and all other sectors will have equal focus.While concluding her remarks, Maryam thanked her party and supporters and vowed to take Nawaz Sharif and Shehbaz Sharif\u2019s experience as the former prime minister and ex-Punjab chief minister, respectively, in leading the provincial affairs. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LAHORE: Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) Senior Vice-President Maryam Nawaz, who is now going to be the chief minister of Punjab \u2014 the first-ever woman to serve the coveted post in&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":8279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking-news","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/voiceofmelange.global\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8277","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/voiceofmelange.global\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/voiceofmelange.global\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voiceofmelange.global\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voiceofmelange.global\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8277"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/voiceofmelange.global\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8277\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8280,"href":"https:\/\/voiceofmelange.global\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8277\/revisions\/8280"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voiceofmelange.global\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/voiceofmelange.global\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voiceofmelange.global\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voiceofmelange.global\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}