Maryam urges Supreme Court to order ‘arrest of PM Imran’

Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) Vice President Maryam Nawaz on Saturday urged the Supreme Court to take an immediate suo moto notice of "brazen violation of its decision” and order arrests of Prime Minister Imran Khan, National Assembly speaker and deputy speaker.

"Bureaucracy/administrations should refuse to comply with any orders coming from the government," she wrote on her official Twitter handle.

Earlier, in another tweet, Maryam said that Imran Khan should not be treated as prime minister or ex-prime minister, he must be treated as a "psychopath" who just to save his own skin is holding the entire country.

Maryam's remarks came as the crucial National Assembly session called to vote on the no-confidence motion against Premier Imran is underway.

"One person who is not in his senses anymore cannot be allowed to wreak havoc & bring the entire country down. This is not a joke," Maryam wrote on the microblogging site.

She said that Imran Khan should not be treated as PM or ex-PM, he must be treated as a "psychopath" who just to save his own skin is holding the entire country hostage.

In another tweet, she said that a maniac’s fear of having to face the music has brought the entire country to a grinding halt and a complete standstill.

The PML-N leader also said that the country of 220 million is "without a government for weeks now".

"This blatant violation of constitution and disregard to SC orders will be ugly & end badly," she also said.

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Maryam called those who were delaying the no-confidence vote "cowards".

Last Sunday, NA Deputy Speaker Qasim Khan Suri had rejected the united opposition’s no-trust motion against the prime minister on the grounds that it was backed by a “foreign country” and thus, the opposition parties had violated Article 5 - loyalty to the state and obedience to the Constitution and law.

However, the ‘constitutional crisis’ was remedied at the Supreme Court which set aside Suri’s ruling and the subsequent dissolution of the lower house of parliament by President Arif Alvi on the premier’s advice in its landmark unanimous ruling on Thursday night after taking a suo moto notice last Sunday.

The 5-0 ruling ordered parliament to reconvene on Saturday (today), no later than 10:30am, saying that the session could not be prorogued without the conclusion of the no-trust motion against PM Imran. “It is declared that the resolution was pending and subsisting at all times and continues to so remain pending and subsisting,” the short order read.