Prime Minister Imran Khan said that Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) Vice President Maryam Nawaz was “taking advantage” of Pakistan’s respect for women and using it to get away with using offensive language against the military leadership.
The above was said after the Sehat Sahulat Card Programme’s inauguration in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP).
“I assure you, if it had been another country, she would have been thrown into jail. But because we respect women here, she is allowed to speak openly,” the premier said on the occasion.
PM Imran said that Maryam continued to disrespect the military, who were laying down their lives every day, during a time when the BJP party in India and its “extremist” Prime Minister Narendra Modi, were oppressing the people of Kashmir and threatening Pakistan.
The premier reiterated his stance on not giving the opposition and NRO, and referred to the Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM) as the “biggest thieves” who were trying to protect themselves.
The premier pointed out that PML-N supreme leader Nawaz Sharif and the Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) Co-chairman Asif Ali Zardari, had accused each other of being corrupt for the past three decades, but had now joined hands.
“One goes to London and acts like he is very ill and we all feel sorry for him,” he said, referring to PML-N supremo and Maryam’s father Nawaz. “Even the courts felt sorry for him and asked the government to allow him to go abroad. I asked the courts to at least take guarantee of Rs7 billion from him but eventually, he went abroad.”
PM Imran said that Nawaz was trying to get the army to have a mutiny against its chief in order to protect his money, and asked: “Who could be a bigger enemy of the country?”
He said that the only way for the country to progress was based on the rule of law, adding that the government was trying to turn Pakistan into a welfare state based on the model of the State of Medina.
