FAISALABAD: Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) vice president Maryam Nawaz has asserted that Prime Minister Imran Khan did not approve the notification of new Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) chief’s appointment “to save his government”
“The Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf (PTI)-led federal government would soon collapse as soon as the incumbent ISI chief, Faiz Hammed, is transferred,” the PML-N vice president said while addressing a Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM) rally in Faisalabad.
The PML-N leader further said PM Imran has made mockery of the country’s armed forces in the entire word. “For the sake of one person, who is your master, to keep him on the seat, you have made make mockery of Pakistan Army,” she added
“We would have stood by PM Imran as well despite the fact that he is selected if he had followed democratic norms,” she said, adding that the nation knows that Imran Khan was the person who acted as ‘pawn’ and allegedly weakened the democracy.
Further criticizing the Prime Minister, Maryam Nawaz said, “You [PM Imran] are worse than any dictator, never try to be like Nawaz Sharif. Jackal can never become lion by wearing the lion skin.”
Talking about the rising inflation, Maryam said that in Nawaz’s tenure as PM, sugar was Rs50 per kg, and now after three years, it had crossed Rs120 per kg while electricity prices had shot up from Rs10-11 per unit to Rs25 per unit.
“There was a man named Imran Khan, who used to say when flour becomes expensive, when sugar prices rise, when rates of electricity and petrol rise, know that your prime minister is a thief,” Maryam said, asking, “So who is the thief now?”
Maryam also criticised the government for the dengue outbreak, particularly in Punjab. “The entire world is facing coronavirus, but now because of their government’s incompetence, people are dying of dengue,” she added.
Maryam also spoke of PML-N supremo Nawaz Sharif, who is in London and has been declared an absconder by Pakistani courts, saying that he has “left everything in the hands of God”.
“When a person leaves their matters to God no matter how powerful one is, or how they say they are on ‘one page’ historic defeat, historic humiliation, historic disgrace becomes the fate of the oppressive,” she said.
Faisalabad’s rally will be followed by a meeting of the PDM’s heads in Islamabad on Oct 18 to take up the alliance’s agenda. The discussion was deferred on Monday in the wake of the recent deaths of nuclear scientist Dr Abdul Qadeer Khan, former Azad Kashmir prime minister Sardar Sikandar Hayat Khan and PML-N MNA Pervez Malik.
