ISLAMABAD - Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) Vice President Maryam Nawaz on Wednesday urged the judiciary to take notice of former DG FIA Bashir Memon’s statements about the Prime Minister.

Memon had said on a private TV channel programme that PM Imran Khan had pressurised him to book Justice Qazi Faez Isa and Opposition leaders in different cases.

Lashing out at Prime Minister Imran Khan, Maryam said never before in the country’s history has a sitting Prime Minister been involved in such serious crimes. “I am sure now people know what Sicilian Mafias are,” she added.

“Not even gangs and mafias commit the acts that are being committed from the Prime Minister House,” she said. She was speaking to the media outside the Islamabad High Court.

Quoting Memon’s remarks in which he alleged the Prime Minister had asked him to file cases against Nawaz Sharif and Maryam Nawaz, Maryam said the PM told them to arrest the Opposition leaders.

Maryam accused the Prime Minister of being involved in political engineering and added that PM Imran Khan was using the Prime Minister’s Office to threaten and pressurise heads of institutions to file fake cases against the Opposition leaders.

She said the situation of Pakistan was so dismal that countries were banning flights to and from the country. She lashed out at the PM saying, “What do you do first thing in the morning when you wake up? You tell people [heads of institutions] to make fake cases against this person or that or throw people into jails.”

She also praised Justice Qazi Faez Isa,stating that he was a man who upheld the principles of truth and justice. She said it was disgraceful that the government wanted to file fake cases against a sitting judge of the Supreme Court and added the PML-N will not let go of this easily. Maryam further said that a conspiracy was being hatched against the PML-N, adding, that it began from the 2014 dharna staged by the PTI and has been continuing on since then.

In response to a question, Maryam said she would continue to fight Justice Qazi Faez Isa and Justice Shaukat Siddiqui’s battles. She said the government was out to get Justice Isa owing to the verdict he gave in the Faizabad dharna case. She praised Justice Shaukat Siddiqui as well. Maryam Nawaz said the government was being exposed while it is in power.