Maryam vows to rid politics of Imran

LAHORE:

Currently, Pakistan faces absolutely no external threat but the only one confronting it is political instability, PML-N Senior Vice President Maryam Nawaz claimed, terming PTI chief Imran Khan and his party responsible for it and vowing to rid politics of them.

Maryam expressed these views while addressing a youth convention at the PML-N Secretariat, which apparently was focused on bashing Imran and his party.

The PML-N SVP said Imran, after his confession that America was not toppling his government, should confess in plain words to the people that he had lied about the narrative of conspiracy.

She said that his slogans ‘Hum Ghulam Hai Kya’ (are we servants) and ‘imported hakumat’ (government) were all based on lies.

“Upon realising that the vote of no confidence will topple his government, he concocted allegations of American-sponsored regime change. Imran waived a cipher and announced that he gave it to the Supreme Court.”

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She said, “I had said it then that this cipher was nothing but fraud.” Maryam still seemed unaware of what the cipher in diplomatic language actually meant.

Using the American conspiracy allegation, she said, they (the PTI) even accused national leaders of being traitors.

She said that when Imran realised that the anti-American narrative could do him damage, he buried his narrative and instead shifted the entire burden on former army chief Gen (retd) Qamar Javed Bajwa. “Bajwa is the person, who Imran had showered with praises when he was in power and Bajwa was the person Imran, upon realising his government was in danger, offered a lifetime extension too.”

She said that Imran, even today, was using the president as an intermediary to patch things up (with powers that be).

She said Imran accused Gen Bajwa of being the super king after the establishment withdrew its support for him.

Mockingly, she said Bajwa was all in power, but yet women of “your house” were plundering millions of rupees.

Referring to the then DG ISI and now COAS Gen Asim Munir, she said that when a person pointed out “financial wrongdoings of your wife, you removed him”.

She said that a concerted campaign was run against the PML-N and other parties to call them thieves, dacoits, and corrupt just for getting Imran declared honest and righteous by former CJP Saqib Nisar.

Today, she said, those who had been declared dishonest were being proven honest and Imran who was declared honest had every allegation of wrongdoing proven against him.

She said that Pakistan was not in need of a narrative, but performance. Campaigns were run against leaders, distracting them from the main issues at hand, Maryam said, confessing that the PML-N too had to counter them by running campaigns.

Citing the example of India replicating the Silicon Valley model to aid growth in its IT sector, she said Pakistan needed to get on the IT revolution bandwagon in order to save the country’s faltering economy.