LAHORE: PML-N Vice President Maryam Nawaz Sharif on Friday advised “half-mad” former prime minister Imran Khan to stay away from media for a while as his “miserable mental health” did not allow him to be in front of the camera in the aftermath of his party PTI’s “failed” long march.
She was apparently responding to an incident that happened earlier today during which Imran Khan suddenly stepped out of a press conference following a harsh question by a journalist in Peshawar.
صحافی کا سوال : آپ کارکنوں کی تربیت کیوں نہیں کرسکے، وہ گلی گلی گالیاں دیتے ہیں، اس طرح نفرت پھیل رہی ہے، آپ نے اپنے دور میں وعدے پورے کہیں کیے، اب کونسے نئے نعرے کیساتھ لوگوں کو ساتھ لائیں گے، آپ کی بورڈ واریئرز سے اسلام آباد کیسے فتح کریں گے
عمران خان غصے سے بھاگ گیا pic.twitter.com/NE9xhbYeTp
— 𝐽𝑎𝑣𝑒𝑑 𝐼𝑞𝑏𝑎𝑙 (@javedeqbalpk1) May 27, 2022
“The people have rejected Imran Khan. A revolution takes its own course and does not get stopped by the police and the one which runs away after seeing the police should die its own death,” she wrote on her official Twitter handle.
Calling Imran Khan “half-mad”, Maryam advised him to stay away from the media “due to his miserable mental health”, saying that the former premier had claimed to bring three million people to Islamabad but could hardly manage 10,000.
فتنہ خان کی آئیں بائیں شائیں سوائے شرمندگی اور ناکامی کے اعتراف کے اور کچھ بھی نہیں۔30 لاکھ کے دعوے کے برعکس 20 ہزار بھی جمع نا کر سکنے پر بیچارے کی ذہنی حالت قابلِ رحم ہو گئی ہے۔عوام نے اسکو پہچان کر مسترد کر دیا ہے۔انقلاب اپنا راستہ خود بناتا ہے، پولیس کے روکنے سے سے نہیں رکتا
— Maryam Nawaz Sharif (@MaryamNSharif) May 27, 2022
The PML-N leader said that Imran Khan, who was abusing the Supreme Court a few days ago, now under the pretext of the top court’s latest verdict wanted to fulfil his agenda of ‘anarchy’.
“Supreme Court must stay vigilant and should keep itself away from this political battle. Otherwise, the impression of partisanship will be fuelled which would be detrimental to judiciary as an institution,” she added.
جو انقلاب پولیس دیکھ کر دوڑ لگا دے اُسے ڈوب مرنا چاہئے۔کہاں 30لاکھ کا دعویٰ اور کہاں 10ہزار تماشائی! کھسیانی بلی کے پاس نوچنے کو کھمبا تو ہوتا ہے،اس نیم پاگل شخص کے پاس تو وہ بھی نہی— ایسی ذہنی حالت میں میڈیا سے دور رہنا بہتر ہے۔
— Maryam Nawaz Sharif (@MaryamNSharif) May 27, 2022
Maryam said that Imran should seek forgiveness from police officials who became victims of his chaos.
فتنہ خان جس سپریم کورٹ کو چند دن پہلے تک گالیاں دے رہا تھا آج اسی سپریم کورٹ کی آڑ لے کر اپنے انتشار کے ایجنڈے کی تکمیل چاہتا ہے۔ سپریم کورٹ کو چوکنا رہنا ہو گا اور اس سیاسی لڑائی سے خود کو الگ رکھنا ہو گاورنہ جانبداری کا تاتر مضبوط ہو گا جو عدلیہ کے لیے بطور ادارہ نقصان دہ ہے
— Maryam Nawaz Sharif (@MaryamNSharif) May 27, 2022
Earlier in the day, while addressing a press conference in Peshawar, Imran Khan dismissed reports that a deal was made to end the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf’s much-hyped long march and said he decided to conclude the protest in order to ‘avoid bloodshed’.
Imran said he would march again if early elections were not announced.
Referring to the party’s “Haqeeqi Azadi March”, the ousted premier lamented how police officials attacked the participants of the march, blaming the incumbent coalition government for picking officers to target the PTI.
Imran reassured his supporters that he was the same leader who once conducted a sit-in for 126 days and that it would not have been difficult to do so again during the ‘Haqeeqi Azadi March’ in the federal capital.
“However, as soon as I reached, I became aware of the extent of the situation,” Imran said, adding that he knew there would be bloodshed and claimed that his supporters were “ready” even after seeing the “terrorism” carried out by the police.
