PML-N Vice President Maryam Nawaz Sharif slams Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan who is Mr. X and Mr. Y and to prove claims that his party members were receiving threatening phone calls from unidentified people.
The former premier and PTI supremo Imran Khan recently claimed in his Jalsa that two individuals understood to be from the security agencies, were leading an effort to overthrow the coalition government in Punjab.
He has also claimed they were calling PTI and PML-Q lawmakers and either tempting them with bribes or coercing them to change allegiances. Talking to the media after appearing before the Islamabad High Court (IHC), where she has challenged her conviction in the Avenfield Apartments reference, Maryam Nawaz said she and her party members also received threats, but did not conceal the identities of those people and disclosed their names at every forum.
Responding to the IHC quashing terrorism charges against Khan in a case of his controversial remarks against a female judge, the PML-N Vice-President said regardless of the sections applied to him, “he is convicted every time because he has done this in front of the world and it doesn’t need to be proved.”
Ms. Nawaz said she always believed in democracy and democratic norms but did not consider the PTI a political party. “It was now the responsibility of all political parties to come forward and expose a “hypocrite and imposter” (Imran Khan) before the nation,” She said.
The PML-N leader lambasted Imran Khan for allegedly “maligning” state institutions, adding the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) had failed to produce any evidence in the cases registered against the PML-N leadership, including herself.
The NAB special prosecutor has also recalled excerpts from the Supreme Court’s judgment in the Panama Papers case and reports of the joint investigation team (JIT) constituted to probe into the assets of the Sharif family.
Earlier last week, the counsel of Maryam Nawaz concluded his arguments on the appeal against her conviction in the Avenfield Apartments reference.
