By India Today World Desk: The “game is over” for cricketer-turned-politician Imran Khan, Senior Vice President of PML-N event, Maryam Nawaz said whereas addressing a convention in Pakistan’s Punjab province on Friday. Her assertion obtained right here in reference to the exodus of senior members from Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) event.
During her deal with, she moreover talked in regards to the May 9 violence throughout the nation, following the arrest of Imran Khan and said the earlier Pakistan prime minister was the mastermind of the May 9 “terrorism” nonetheless his workers are going by anti-terrorism court docket docket.
Since the violence, larger than 70 authorized professionals and prime leaders, along with the event’s Secretary General Asad Umar, former information minister Fawad Chaudhry and former minister for human rights, Shireen Mazari, of the PTI have parted strategies from the event.
Taking a jibe on the PTI over the leaders’ mass departure, Maryam said that there have been queues of those quitting the event.
The PTI leaders’ exodus started when the protection forces launched a crackdown in the direction of the event following the assaults on civil and navy institutions.
“How will the people stand when the leader himself is a jackal?” she criticised the earlier prime minister, who was far from office by a vote of no confidence throughout the National Assembly in April ultimate 12 months.
“Your people are revealing that Imran Khan, 70, is the mastermind of the May 9 incident,” she added.
Further, Maryam said Imran Khan took his wife, Bushra Bibi, to court covered with sheets but he used other women as vanguards.
Khan and his wife were covered with white sheets as they arrived at the Lahore High Court on May 15 in the Al-Qadir Trust case.
MAY 9 PAKISTAN VIOLENCE
On May 9, violent protests erupted after paramilitary Rangers arrested Khan from the Islamabad High Court (IHC) premises.
His party workers vandalised a dozen military installations, including the Lahore Corps Commander’s House, the Mianwali airbase and the ISI building in Faisalabad in response to Khan’s arrest.
The mob also stormed the Army headquarters (GHQ) in Rawalpindi for the first time.
Police put the death toll in violent clashes to 10, while Khan’s party claims 40 of its workers lost their lives in the firing by security personnel.
Thousands of Khan’s supporters were arrested following the violence that the powerful Army described as a “dark day” throughout the historic previous of the nation.
