Daily Times

Fresh audio leaks of former prime minister Imran Khan have proven that the use of terms such as ‘Mir Jaffar and Mir Sadiq’ was nothing but a smokescreen to discredit detractors and political opponents, said Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) Vice President Maryam Nawaz while speaking with journalists in London on Friday. Maryam, who had arrived in London on Thursday night and was reunited with her family after four years, had earlier in the day attended a party summit alongside her father, party supremo Nawaz Sharif. Speaking to the media afterwards, she said that she was sympathetic towards those who never believed in the PTI chairman’s pile of lies, adding that the former prime minister lacked ethical values and was making a fool of the nation. In the leaked audios, she said that they had completely exposed Imran’s hypocrisy and hubris before the public. “Imran Khan hatched a conspiracy and branded people as Mir Jaffar and Mir Sadiq to hide it,” she said, adding that “He must ask himself who should be called as Mir Jaffar and Mir Sadiq after the exposed by audio leaks.” Having survived on crutches, Maryam believed that Imran was now trying to find a fresh pair of crutches and was looking to cut a deal. “Iman does not believe in politics but crutches,” she said. Calling him a “foreign-funded anarchist”, she said the PTI chief was a slave of international conspirators and had been launched to spread chaos in the country. Accosting him of not believing in dialogue and collecting money from conspirators sitting outside the country, she all but ruled out dialogue with the former prime minister. We cannot let him play with the lives of 220 million people of Pakistan, she said. “Imran Khan claimed himself to be a believer in the state of Madina, but, behind closed doors, he acts against it,” she said. “He manufactured lies against the PML-N, and now he cannot provide any proof,” she said.