Imran Khan and Maryam Nawaz in verbal war via Twitter.
Imran Khan, Chairman of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI), and Maryam Nawaz, Senior Vice President of the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N), engaged in an online war as political tensions rose between the political parties over the presence of two judges on a nine-member Supreme Court bench hearing a suo motu case regarding elections in Punjab and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
The Twitter war began after the PTI chief took aim at the PMD and called Maryam a “spoiled brat” for disparaging the Supreme Court’s judges.
His comments come after the ruling parties raised objections over the participation of two judges in the bench and insisted formation of a larger bench to hear the case.
“PDM leadership seen challenging us to dissolve KP & Punjab assemblies if we want elections! Now, when confronted, they are petrified of elections knowing they will be decimated.
So they are maligning the SC judges & are ready to violate the Constitution to avoid elections,” he wrote on Twitter.
He added, “Shameless & calculated attacks on SC judges by PDM & spoilt brat Maryam, nurtured on corruption money, have one purpose only – to run away from elections even by violating Constitution”.
Khan said they were “damaging the Federation & ensuring law of jungle prevails in Pakistan” by maligning the judiciary.
“Oh, how the mighty have fallen! Your squeals are not amiss as you have been the king of conspiracies, thriving & surviving on them with the help of your Godfather Faiz & his vestiges. Now watch the ‘spoilt brat’ checkmate you so Godsons & pawns like you are relegated to irrelevance,” Maryam Nawaz said in response.
“Your ‘chor daku’ narrative has not only fallen flat on its face but from being caught red-handed stealing £190m (Rs 58 b), to your wife’s jewellery & Toshakhana heist, to signing files for 5 carat diamond ring, you are the first ever PM to be guilty of all forms of corruption,” reads the tweet by her.
“The fact that you are avoiding courts and begging for adjournments is a glaring admission of you being guilty. The plastered leg will no more save you. Man up & face the law,” Maryam concluded.
