JATI UMRA: Pakistan Muslim League Nawaz (PML-N) vice-president Maryam Nawaz has said that the Supreme Court’s decision to restrict Justice Qazi Faez Isa from hearing cases involving Prime Minister Imran Khan “is not good for the credibility and respect of the judiciary”.
Talking to journalists before her departure from Jati Umra to Sialkot, she said that the whole system of justice is being risked to save an unqualified and incompetent person.”
Responding to the question in this regard, Maryam said that the development was completely different than the treatment meted out to her father, PML-N supremo Nawaz Sharif. “Every coming day is proving that Mian [Nawaz Sharif] sahab’s vision was right,” she added.
“I understand that there have been historic attempts to break the PML-N and all institutions have been thrust against a party but the PML-N did not break apart,” she said, adding that the reason behind this was the PML-N becoming an “ideological party”.
Responding to another question, Maryam said DG ISPR Major General Babar Iftikhar was ‘very respectable for me and is a good man’. “However, when you say such things then they will become a subject of mockery among the nation,” she said, referring to his comments when he rubbished rumours that the armed forces and the opposition were in contact.
“The people will think you are lying. It is better that you adopt silence and don’t talk on the issue but don’t give wrong statements,” the PML-N leader added.
She also reiterated that the opposition alliance, Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM) wanted electoral reforms and real democracy but any legislation on this front could not be done with PM Imran.
