LAHORE: Senior PML-N leadership and allies on Saturday voiced outrage over what they called “special treatment” given to Imran Khan by courts and appeared anxious over their failure to defeat their archrival.
PML-N chief organiser Maryam Nawaz spent the day on social media responding to the police raid at Mr. Khan’s Zaman Park home and his court appearance in Islamabad.
PML-N president and Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif criticised Mr. Khan and his party’s “defiance to law”.
Moreover, Many PML-N cabinet officials attended press conferences to defend the police action against Mr. Khan and criticise his party’s “hooliganism” at the Islamabad judicial complex.
Afterward, PM Shehbaz agreed with niece Maryam Nawaz that PTI is a “militant organisation”.
“If anyone doubted, Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf chairman Imran Niazi’s antics over the last several days lay bare his fascist and militant proclivities. “He (Imran) has taken a leaf out of the RSS (Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh) book from using people as human shields to throwing petrol bombs at police to leading ‘jathas’ to frighten judiciary,” PM Shehbaz tweeted.
Indian Hindu nationalist paramilitary RSS.
Maryam Nawaz stated Imran Khan feared jail. “Does he call himself a politician?” Politicians fear neither jail nor accountability. Just thieves and terrorists. She ridiculed the court for registering Mr. Khan’s attendance in the Toshakhana case without him appearing. He fled court without signing in.
While Law Minister Azam Nazir Tarar told a press conference that he had never seen a court ask a defendant to sign a vehicle to document his attendance like Imran Khan did. “Don’t mock your justice system,” Mr. Tarar warned.
Federal Information Minister Marriyum Aurangzeb also criticised the judiciary’s “bundle package of bail” for Mr. Khan.
“Terrorists who assaulted police, the justice system, and the state received bail packages. She claimed this shows Khan is beyond the law and Constitution.
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While Ms. Aurangzeb stated Imran Khan supporters threw petrol bombs on police and rangers on court orders. She said all state institutions uphold government writ.
Afterward, Federal Minister for Climate Change of PPP Sherry Rehman said: “Today again law and court’s sanctity were trampled. He brings people to influence the court. The court must take notice of it, otherwise, other political parties will follow suit,” she cautioned.
Faisal Karim Kundi, another federal cabinet member of PPP, said Mr Khan brought a jatha (a group of people) along with him to the court only to save himself from indictment in the Toshakhana case.