Islamabad
\nPML-N Vice President Maryam Nawaz has claimed that former prime minister and Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) chief Imran Khan was seeking an NRO (deal) by holding secret meetings at the President House in Islamabad.
\nShe was referring to reports that the former premier held a meeting with an \u2018important personality\u2019 at Aiwan-e-Sadr in the federal capital recently.
\nIn a recent interview with a local TV channel, Imran when asked about the meeting said, \u201cI don\u2019t lie and cannot tell the truth.\u201d
\nAddressing a press conference in Lahore on Tuesday, Maryam said the former premier was raising hue and cry after failing to get any relief from the powers that be.
\nShe also called for dealing with PTI with iron first, saying the Imran Khan-led \u201cforeign-funded party\u201d should not be allowed to hold long march on Islamabad.
\nMaryam said the PTI chief should not be allowed to \u201cattack\u201d the federal capital with his \u201carmed group\u201d.
\n\u201cAn example should be made out of him [Imran] for hatching conspiracy against the country and attacking the state institutions,\u201d she remarked.
\nHer statement came a day after the PTI chief indicated that his party\u2019s much-awaited long march to the federal capital might finally be taking place in the third week of this month.
\nThe former prime minister on Monday held a meeting of district presidents and secretaries of his party\u2019s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (K-P) and Punjab wings, wherein he issued strict instructions to officials for the upcoming march.<\/p>\n
He had directed them to ensure full participation of the people and advised them to consider \u201creal freedom\u201d as \u201cjihad\u201d. He added that if they do not get \u201creal freedom\u201d now, they might never get it at all.<\/p>\n
Responding to a question about PTI\u2019s narrative of real freedom, Maryam in today\u2019s presser said Imran\u2019s entire narrative is based on lies. \u201cThis is not a narrative but a fraud\u2026 shelf life of Imran Khan\u2019s lies has expired,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
\u201cIs [Finance Minister] Ishaq Dar\u2019s return [to country] not a slap in the face of PTI\u2019s narrative,\u201d she asked.<\/p>\n
Maryam while highlighting the PTI chief\u2019s hard-hitting statements against the establishment said the ousted premier would praise military when he was sitting in the Prime Minister\u2019s Office. \u201cToday he is calling them neutrals and using abusive language against them. Nawaz Sharif never used abusive language against establishment like Imran,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Islamabad PML-N Vice President Maryam Nawaz has claimed that former prime minister and Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) chief Imran Khan was seeking an NRO (deal) by holding secret meetings at the President House in Islamabad. She was referring to reports that the former premier held a meeting with an \u2018important personality\u2019 at Aiwan-e-Sadr in the federal […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":287415,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[10917,2833,688,4742],"class_list":{"0":"post-287400","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-top-news","8":"tag-aiwan-e-sadr","9":"tag-imran-khan","10":"tag-maryam-nawaz","11":"tag-nro"},"yoast_head":"\n