Imran Khan’s celebration can slot in rickshaw: Maryam Nawaz’s jibe at ex-PM over defections

By India Today World Desk: In a jibe at former Prime Minister Imran Khan, the ruling Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz’s (PML-N) senior chief Maryam Nawaz has mentioned the whole celebration of Khan can slot in a rickshaw following large-scale defections from the nation’s most important opposition celebration.

Maryam Nawaz’s assertion got here in reference to the aftermath of the May 9 violence.

Addressing a youth conference in Shujaabad in Punjab province on Sunday, Maryam Nawaz mentioned, “Today he is the president, general secretary, chief organiser and spokesperson of the party and the only candidate of his party.”

Now the whole opposition celebration can slot in a “Qingqi rickshaw” following defections within the wake of the May 9 violence, she mentioned, referring to a kind of imported rickshaw in Pakistan.

Over 20 navy installations and authorities buildings, together with the navy headquarters in Rawalpindi, had been broken or torched in the course of the violent protests by the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) employees following the arrest of Khan in a corruption case by the paramilitary Rangers final month.

Khan was later launched on bail.

Maryam, the daughter of three-time premier Nawaz Sharif, mentioned Khan talked about his political wrestle of 26 years.

“Let me tell you… his 26-year-long struggle took only 26 minutes to be dismantled. Now he will sit all alone in Zaman Park and all those leaders who quit him have gone from where they had come,” she mentioned.

“Imran Khan tried his best to make the Pakistan Army surrender to his will after being removed from power through a parliamentary vote of no-confidence (in April last year) but his attempt backfired and now he is facing the music,” mentioned Maryam.

She mentioned Khan had revolted towards the Pakistan Army by attacking its establishments on May 9.

“The chapter of chaos and anarchy has ended and now the journey of progress will begin,” the PML-N chief added.

Khan is the mastermind of the May 9 assaults on defence and civilian installations, however now he’s begging for talks and conferences, she alleged.

She mentioned the “real enemy of the country” was recognized after the May 9 violence which noticed assaults on public and navy installations in lots of elements of the nation following the arrest of the PTI chief.

In the navy establishment-backed crackdown on the PTI, over 100 celebration leaders and former lawmakers have thus far defected and joined the ‘king’s celebration’ Istekham Pakistan Party (IPP) led by Khan’s former aide Jahangir Khan Tareen.

Dozens of PTI leaders, together with Shireen Mazari, Fawad Chaudhry, Aamir Mehmood Kiani, Ali Zaidi and others have stop the celebration, whereas senior leaders like Asad Umar and Parvez Khattak stepped down from celebration positions.

Khan declared he would proceed preventing for his trigger regardless that all leaders of his celebration stop.

Maryam mentioned Khan had set the nation on hearth and his supporters desecrated memorials of “army martyrs” in May and he would not be forgiven.

“Your (Khan) own sons are living in the UK but you trained the poor party workers to attack the army installations. You are holed up in your house in Zaman Park Lahore and recording statements on YouTube while the mothers of the youth arrested in the May 9 incidents are weeping outside the jail for their sons,” she mentioned.

(With inputs from PTI)