Pakistan: Maryam Nawaz Slams Ex- PM Imran Khan Over Defection Of Senior PTI Members

ISLAMABAD: Maryam Nawaz, senior vice president of Pakistan Muslim League- Nawaz (PML-N) party, said the "game is over" for cricketer-turned-politician Imran Khan, while addressing a convention in Pakistan's Punjab province on Friday.

The backdrop to Maryam’s statement was the exodus of senior members from Khan's Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party. A number of senior PTI leaders deserted the party following the targetting of Imran by the Pak govt and his ignominious arrest.

While delivering her address, Maryam also talked about the violence in the country, following the arrest of Imran Khan on May 9. She accused the former Pakistan prime minister of being the mastermind of the May 9 “terrorism,” even as his workers are facing trial in an anti-terrorism court.

PTI party's Secretary General Asad Umar, former information minister Fawad Chaudhry and former minister for human rights, Shireen Mazari of the PTI, including more than 70 lawyers and top leaders have parted ways from the party since the violence erupted.

Maryam said that there were queues of people quitting the party, while taking a swipe at the PTI over the mass departure of leaders.

After the security forces launched a crackdown against the PTI, following the attacks on civil and military installations, the PTI leaders started to leave the party.

“How will the people stand when the leader himself is a jackal?” she slammed the former prime minister. Imran Khan was removed from office through a vote of no confidence in the National Assembly in April last year.

She added that, “Your people are revealing that Imran Khan, 70, is the mastermind of the May 9 incident.”

Moreover, Imran Khan took his wife Bushra Bibi to court draped in sheets but he used other women as vanguards, Maryam pointed out.

On May 15, while appearing in the Al-Qadir Trust case at the Lahore High Court, Khan and his wife were covered with white sheets as they arrived in the court.

After paramilitary Rangers arrested Khan, dragging him away from the Islamabad High Court premises on May 9, violent protests were held by his followers, who then attacked police vehicles and army installations.

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