Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) Vice President Maryam Nawaz on Thursday said that Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan’s ultimatum to the government to announce an election is just a face-saving attempt as the people have rejected the “fake revolution”.
Addressing the media in Lahore, she said: “People turned his [Imran Khan’s] ‘Azadi March’ into ‘destruction march’ and sent him back to Peshawar.”
She claimed that PTI workers on the orders of party leaders set fire and spread chaos in the federal capital. “The PTI revolution was not leaderless instead Imran and other party leaders were leading it,” she added.
The Supreme Court had issued clear instructions to hold Azadi March protest near Peshawar Mor between the H-9 and G-9 areas of Islamabad. However, Imran and his protesters did make their way towards D-Chowk, prompting the government to call in the Pakistan Army to secure the capital’s Red Zone.
Maryam said the people have responded to Imran’s call by saying “absolutely not” and adding that his politics has been wiped out from the country.
While holding the ousted premier responsible for the death of a police constable during a raid at the PTI leader’s home, Maryam said Imran should be booked for spreading anarchy.
“I am satisfied that the whole nation has rejected the ‘anarchy’ march. The journey of true freedom beings from home while Imran Khan’s children are in London,” she remarked.
“The martyred policeman’s wife also blames Khan for her husband’s death,” she said, adding that the PTI chairman has kept his own sons safe in London but “deprived these five children of their father by killing him.”
Maryam said that the families of the martyred and injured soldiers will be compensated and the government will take care of them.
“Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has said that the government will provide a house to and will bear the educational expenses of the deceased policeman’s children,” she added.
