Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) Vice President Maryam Nawaz on Monday said the “fake prime minister” would not be able to sidestep accountability by arresting his political rivals, hours after the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) arrested former president Asif Ali Zardari in the fake bank accounts case.
The Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) co-chairman was arrested by a NAB team from his residence in the federal capital after the Islamabad High Court (IHC) rejected his plea for extension in interim bail in the fake bank accounts case earlier in the day.
Taking to Twitter, Maryam said separate laws prevailed for masses and those in power in the country. “Fake prime minister [Imran Khan] used to say there were separate laws for rich and poor in Pakistan, but the fact is that there is one law for rich and poor and other for the fake PM and his investors,” she remarked.
قانون سب کے لیے برابر اور احتساب غیر جانبدارنہ ہوتا تو چور دروازے سے آیا جعلی اعظم اپنا اور اپنی بہن کا حساب دینے کے لیئے آج کٹہرے میں ہوتا۔
اپوزیشن کے لیڈران کو چن چن کر گرفتار کرنے سے جعلی اعظم اس جواب سے نہیں بچ سکتا جو اس کو ہر حال میں دینا پڑے گا ۔— Maryam Nawaz Sharif (@MaryamNSharif) June 10, 2019
Maryam, whose father and three-time prime minister of the country Nawaz Sharif is also currently languishing in jail, further added that the ‘fake premier’ would have been facing courts for allegedly stealing the public mandate and corruption of his sister if the law and accountability process was equal for everyone in the country.
جعلی اعظم کہتا تھا کہ پاکستان میں غریب کے لئے ایک قانون ہے اور امیر کے لیے دوسرا جبکہ سب سے بڑی حقیقت یہ ہے کہ پورے پاکستان، امیر ہو یا غریب، کے لیے الگ قانون ہے اور جعلی اعظم، اسکے خاندان اور اس کا خرچ اٹھانے والے امیر دوستوں کے لیے الگ قانون۔ انکے لئے کوئی قانون ہے؟
— Maryam Nawaz Sharif (@MaryamNSharif) June 10, 2019
Meanwhile, Zardari’s youngest daughter Aseefa Bhutto also fired broadside at the government, saying, “This cowardly selected government thinks throwing opposition into jail will legitimise it. No case, no conviction, no plausible cause. Arresting Asif Ali Zardari will not silence the voice of truth. He was vindicated before and he will be vindicated again.”
This cowardly selected government thinks throwing opposition into jail will legitimise it. No case, no conviction, no plausible cause. Arresting @AAliZardari will not silence the voice of truth. He was vindicated before and he will be vindicated again.
— Aseefa B Zardari (@AseefaBZ) June 10, 2019
She also cast doubts over federal ministers’ knowledge of today’s development days and months before the court’s decision. The daughter of former premier Benazir Bhutto also questioned issuance of arrest warrants before cancellation of bail. “Mockery of justice,” she added.
This cowardly selected government thinks throwing opposition into jail will legitimise it. No case, no conviction, no plausible cause. Arresting @AAliZardari will not silence the voice of truth. He was vindicated before and he will be vindicated again.
— Aseefa B Zardari (@AseefaBZ) June 10, 2019
