Maryam asks Imran to disclose identities of Mr X and Mr Y

Islamabad: PML-N Vice President Maryam Nawaz on Tuesday urged PTI Chairman Imran Khan to disclose the identities of “Mr X and Mr Y” he often mentions during his public addresses.

She also demanded that Imran Khan provide proof to defend his claim that PTI members have been receiving threatening phone calls from unknown quarters.

The PTI stalwart repeated his allegations about the two in Monday’s Chakwal rally and called on the people to threaten them back. 

Speaking to reporters in Islamabad on the topic, Maryam said: “What is X and Y? If there is proof then bring it forward.”

She acknowledged that the PML-N had levelled similar allegations in the past but claimed to have also provided proof in addition to mentioning their names.

“The one on whose behest calls were being made yesterday is today saying ‘my members are receiving calls [themselves]’. What about when you were responsible for calls to people? We received calls and threats too but we faced them.”

Regarding his comments about Mr X and Mr Y during Chakwal’s address, Maryam said that if Imran himself did not have the courage to reveal their identities “then what lesson are you giving to the nation to call them out and threaten them”. 

She alleged that Imran had meet former army chief Raheel Sharif during the PTI’s 2014 sit-in as well. “Tell your party to do only what you yourself do. This can’t happen that you call out someone in rallies and fall to their feet in the darkness of night,” Maryam added.

Replying to a question about whether Imran still continued to be the “blue-eyed child” of any institution, Maryam said: “That someone whose blue-eyed child he (Imran) is do not actually consider him to be so.”

About the Islamabad High Court quashing the terror charges against the PTI chief in the case over his controversial remarks against a female judge, the PML-N stalwart said regardless of whatever sections were applied to him, “he is convicted every time because he has done this (comments against the judge) in front of the world and it doesn’t need to be proved.”

The court should discourage Imran’s attitude as it was “not good for the country, nation and institutions”, Maryam said.