BAHAWALPUR
PML- N senior Vice President Maryam Nawaz on Wednesday blamed a “ Mafia of five ” for the country’s woe, as she started a campaign to set a new party narrative after her return from London a numerous days agene.
Addressing a party convention in Bahawalpur, Maryam, who has been assigned the fresh tasks of the PML- N’s star organizer and restructure the party by her father former premier Nawaz Sharif, maintained that this “ Mafia of five ” included PTI Chairman Imran Khan.
She added that two other members of this “ gang ” were-top judges of the country, Saqib Nisar and Asif Saeed Khosa.
Maryam did not mention the names of the other two, simply describing them as the PTI chief’s two “ pillars ”.
Sources said Nawaz had assigned the task of preparing a “ comprehensive charge- distance ” against Imran to senior party leaders.
The “ charge- distance ” also included the PTI chairman’s alleged facilitators – annex- army chief and two former heads of a asset agency as well as a former star justice of Pakistan so that the party could collectively target them during the campaign for the Punjab polls drive.
Speaking to the gathering in Bahawalpur, Maryam asked the people to be thankful that the period of this “ Mafia of five ” was over before they could damage the country to a point of no return.
Claiming that the “ gang of five ” had planned to remain in power for the coming 12 times, she asked the people to wonder what would have happened to the country if that had not been stopped.
She maintained that the PTI, during its four times in power, had taken the country to the point of destruction but fortunately, it was ousted from power just before it could fully negotiate that.
The PML- N leader said she would openly identify members of the Mafia.
“ Whether that is Khosa or the levee joe( Nisar) or Imran or his two pillars, ” she added.
evidently pertaining to Lt Gen( red) Faiz Hameed, Maryam claimed that Imran’s” facilitator”, who was posted in Peshawar, was responsible for the deadly temple attack in Khyber- Pakhtunkhwa’s capital a day ahead.
“ Several precious lives were lost history in Peshawar. I will go there as well. Nawaz Sharif had relieve the country of terrorism. The nation asks why the terrorist attack in Peshawar took place. I will tell you what happened, ” she maintained.
“ The one Imran used to call his eyes, hands and cognizance( Lt Gen( red) Faiz Hameed), was posted in K- P. Why did he open doors for terrorists? Why did he say that terrorists were our sisters and invited them to Pakistan? Why did he release these deep terrorists? ” Maryam questioned.
She said that if he would come eyes, hands and cognizance of Pakistan rather of Imran’s, Pakistan would not have been in this situation.
“ The bone he( Imran) used to call his eyes, cognizance and hands, used to say in Afghanistan that everything was fine while drinking wa-wa, ” she added.
Maryam said Imran had a habit of hurling allegations as he ahead blamed the US for his ouster from the post of the premier and was now professing that Caretaker Punjab Chief Minister Mohsin Naqvi had been appointed to help his party’s success in the forthcoming choices in the terrain.
“ Just a numerous days agene, Imran Khan was in power in K- P for the last 10 times. The nation moment asks the question that how important capacity have you increased( of police) during all this time. The police in K- P are suffering bullet injuries to their cases they have nothing to cover themselves because you kept the terrain only to cover your charges for helicopter lifts, ” she added.
Maryam directed out that when Imran was the high minister, eight meetings encounter- terrorism were held in congress but he did not indeed attend one of them.
“ He was the leader of the house– indeed though a ‘ fake ’ one– it was his responsibility, ” she said.
The PML- N leader said indeed moment when the K- P police demanded a forensics laboratory, they came to Punjab that was erected by the same Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif whom you denounce.
She added that former high minister Nawaz Sharif was not displeased that he lost power but he was sad because the earnings Pakistan made inch by inch from 2013 to 2017 within the country and outside were lost due to the “ Mafia of five ”.
“ In 2016 and 2017, they came up with a drama called Panama and used to say Nawaz was the root of all wrong in the country. If that was the case also there should be gutters of milk and honey flowing in the country following the four- time term of the Imran Khan government. Pakistan, rather of going forward, has gone backwards, ” she claimed.
Maryam said that the country now had no choice other than Nawaz Sharif and the PML-N.
“ Ever since we assumed power, the opponents allowed the PML- N was quiet and under pressure. You have made as multitudinous rounds of the field as you could and now it’s the PML- N’s turn. The PML- N was no way weakened or suppressed, ” she said.
Lashing out at Imran for destroying the economy, Maryam said that the former premier had “ sold ” Pakistan to the International Monetary Fund( IMF).
“ The situation that the country encountered, we should be thankful that Pakistan was saved,” she maintained.
Maryam said that Imran, after agreeing to strict measures, repealed on his pledges with the IMF and the nation was paying the price for not keeping up with the commitments made with the global lender.
She blamed the hike in petrol and diesel prices on the agreement with the IMF which Imran had signed.
Maryam’s reflections on “ dynastic politics ” came following party leader Shahid Khaqan Abbasi’s abdication from the post of the party’s elderly vice chairman before in the day. His abdication was verified by Nawaz’s prophet and former Sindh governor, Mohammad Zubair.
Maryam said her new assignments had been given to her lately and she adored her sympathizers ’ affection further than the designations granted to her.
On the forthcoming Punjab choices, she said the PML- N had now started its crusade and would “ clean reach ” the pates.
