Maryam Nawaz to PM Imran: ‘You’re part of the mafia that targets political opponents’

LAHORE: Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz leader Maryam Nawaz on Saturday called out Prime Minister Imran Khan, accusing him of being part of a mafia that pressurises judges into targeting and punishing its political opponents.

Taking to Twitter, Maryam said, "You’re a part of the mafia that pressurises judges into targeting and punishing your political opponents. It is you who used the institutions to settle scores with your opponents and defaced and maligned them in the process. Shame on you."

Maryam’s tweet came in response to a tweet by PM Imran sent out earlier in the day. Apparently targeting the PML-N leadership, the prime minister called them the "Pakistani mafia" and compared them to the Sicilian mafia which used blackmail and threats to pressurise the judiciary and other institutions.

The prime minister said, “In a similar vein to the 'Sicilian mafia', the Pakistani mafia uses tactics of bribe, threat, blackmail and begging to pressurise state institutions and judiciary in order to protect their billions of money laundering stashed abroad.”