Pakistan Muslim League-N Chief Organiser Maryam Nawaz termed the “disintegration” of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf as karma for the previous ruling party’s actions.
“The Tehreek-e-Insaf is going back to where it started from. There is a line of people exiting the party,” she said while addressing PML-N’s religious scholars’ wing in Lahore Saturday.
Several party leaders have quit the PTI in recent days in protest over the riots that erupted after Imran Khan was arrested. The enraged protesters attacked military installations, including the Lahore Corps Commanders House and the General Headquarters entrance, during the days-long unrest.
In her address, Maryam claimed Khan was the “mastermind” of the protests that erupted on May 9 and had trained the rioters at his Zaman Park residence for the last six months.
“They were exposed on May 9. Subsequently, he [Khan] was condemning it yesterday. The people who issue such frivolous condemnations should be thrashed,” the PML-N senior vice president said. She further claimed that the PTI was a “terrorist organisation” which had always tried to sabotage the country.
Maryam said that if proof of PTI’s involvement in the May 9 protests was required, people only had to check Khan’s nephew Hassaan Niazi’s pictures from that day and core member Dr Yasmin Rashid’s alleged audio leak.
“Which political workers know how to make petrol bombs? The Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan also announced that it participated in the protests and supported Imran Khan,” she added.
