Maryam terms PTI workers trained terrorists

Says they were recruited from banned organisations supported by Imran

LAHORE:

Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) Senior Vice President Maryam Nawaz has termed the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf workers “trained terrorists who were recruited from banned organisations”, urging people to watch the pictures and videos of the Zaman Park operation, which she tweeted.

In several tweets, Maryam shared pictures and videos of the clash between the PTI workers and the police outside Zaman Park, saying: “Watch them carefully! The truth is hard to hide.”

She said that all these were not political activists, “they are trained terrorists who were recruited here from the banned organisations, which Imran Khan has always supported”.

Maryam said, “The evidence speaks for itself, the government must act on it before it is too late.”

Separately, addressing a news conference in Lahore, Federal Information Minister Marriyum Aurangzeb in an attempt to make the judiciary go against the former PM, said the courts inaction against Imran for challenging the writ of the government was putting the state in danger of anarchy and chaos.

The minister said the police were attacked by the PTI workers for merely executing the court orders, and if the writ of police was allowed by the courts to erode then even the judiciary will not be safe from gangsters and terrorists.

Warning the courts, she said if they think that by protecting their blue-eyed boy, this chaos would stop here, “they are badly mistaken” as others will follow suit.

Imran, she said, was dividing the country, as by pitting the provincial police against each other, he attacked the state with his terrorists and gangsters, he murdered the writ of the state and instead of taking any suo moto action against him, he got a relief package.

She said, “The courts where bails are cancelled for arriving a little late and the courts which gave titles to former prime minister Nawaz Sharif of being a godfather, Sicilian mafia and don, despite him honouring them by attending hearings, allowed Imran, whose workers attacked the police in Lahore with weapons, batons, and stone as well as burnt police vehicles, to get off scot-free.

Mentioning that Imran’s attendance was marked in his car by the registrar, Marriyum asked, “Do courts accord this kind of white-gloved treatment to a terrorist.”

She said judiciary, parliament and government combined make up a state, and it was binding on all to ensure the supremacy of law. “Not doing so will be akin to handing over the country to terrorist.”