ISLAMABAD - Pakistan Muslim League- Nawaz (PML-N) Vice President Maryam Nawaz has said that PTI Chairman Imran Khan, who accuses US of conspiring against his government, on one hand is lobbying with Americans to secure a ‘political bailout’ while on the other is putting pressure on institutions by hurling threats.
Maryam Nawaz was talking to media persons after appearing before IHC over her appeal against conviction in the Avenfield reference on Tuesday. “Imran Khan is a non-issue now, and we should not give him any weightage and rather put our collective efforts towards resolving the country’s issues,” she said. She stated that PTI always puts up a challenge and clears its way out of everything.
Criticizing the PTI Chairman she added that Imran Khan provokes people by telling them to break the idol of fear, while he didn’t have the courage to even name someone directly. She further lashed out at the PTI Chairperson and challenged him to bring forward the proof of any security threats. Maryam said she always believed in democracy and democratic norms, but did not consider the PTI a political party. It was now the responsibility of all the political parties to come forward and expose a ‘hypocrite and imposter’ Imran Khan before the nation. She said on one hand Imran Khan had no guts to point out the names of Mr X and Mr Y and on the other he was inciting his party workers to retaliate the alleged threats. Ironically, he always kept his supporters in dark about his late night meetings, she added.To a question, Maryam claimed that the government in Punjab was unconstitutional and Chief Minister Pervez Elahi had to go home sooner or later for the betterment of the province. She said Imran Khan repeatedly blamed the United States for toppling his government, but after a big U-turn he had now embarked on lobbying with that country. The PML-N leader lambasted Imran Khan for ‘maligning’ state institutions and alleged that he and his coterie were fully involved in corruption, while the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) had failed to produce any evidence in the cases registered against the PML-N leadership, including herself.