'You don't know politics. How will you compete with Nawaz', Maryam challenges Imran

LAHORE: Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz vice president Maryam Nawaz battered Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaaf chairman Imran Khan during a public meeting in the provincial capital on Tuesday evening, asking Khan to play cricket instead of doing politics.  

“Niazi, you don't know politics, how will you compete with Nawaz Sharif?” asked the PML-N leader.

She was addressing the workers’ convention of the NA-128 constituency in Lahore along with Punjab's Chief Minister-elect Hamza Shahbaz.

She claimed the power of the masses stood with PML-N, asking the PTI chairman to stop crying.

"PML-N is not afraid of elections. You {Khan} considered Supreme Court of Pakistan as Bani Gala," the PML-N leader said. 

Maryam said the PTI chairman feared that if the PML-N government would come to power, then his corruption cases would come out in the open.

She said Imran Khan, who used to claim that Nawaz Sharif’s politics and government had ended, is now accusing the PML-N supremo of ousting him from power while sitting in London.

“Until yesterday, he used to say Nawaz Sharif’s government and politics had ended. Today he’s saying that Nawaz Sharif ended his government by sitting in London."

Maryam congratulated the PML-N workers for getting rid of the PTI-led government and lauded her party supporters for fighting against destruction.

She said the gifts he took from the Toshakhana and sold belonged to the state, adding the PTI chairman didn't sell gifts but "sold Pakistan’s ties with other countries" through the move.

“Imran Khan you will have to give answers,” said Maryam, adding the PTI chairman will have to respond to the allegations linking him with Farah Khan, the friend of the former prime minister’s wife.

“Imran Khan, you will have to tell what relations did your wife had with Farah Khan,” said the PML-N leader.

The PML-N leader reminded the workers that the former prime minister used to claim that her father’s politics had ended but it was the PML-N supremo’s candidate Shehbaz Sharif who became the PM and Hamza who became the CM.

On the PTI’s call for fresh elections, Maryam said that the PMl-N did not fear elections as the people’s power was with them. She added that people who fear elections are the ones who pass by “cheating”.

Commenting on PTI chairman’s question regarding the opening of courts at midnight, Maryam said that they were opened as the former prime minister had broken the Constitution.

“You started to see PM House as Banigala which is why the courts were opened,” said Maryam. While hitting out at President Arif Alvi, Maryam said that this was a country of 220 million not his “dental clinic”.

“Arif Alvi, if you want to listen to Imran Khan so much, then resign and go home,” said Maryam.

Addressing the gathering, Punjab CM-elect Hamza Shehbaz said his government would not take revenge from anyone.

He told Imran Khan to stop crying about a conspiracy and warned him not to think of staging a sit-in in Islamabad.