LAHORE: The Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf Punjab chapter information secretary Shaukat Basra has alleged Punjab Chief Minister Maryam Nawaz has turned the province into a “police state”.

In a video massage, Basra alleged Chief Minister Maryam Nawaz was getting fake terrorism cases registered against the innocent PTI workers and getting them “kidnapped”, while the party’s women leaders had been put in jails.

“You may unleash torture against innocent party workers, but you will soon face divine justice,” he said.

Basra claimed PML-N’s planning and development minister Ahsan Iqbal and his leaders Nawaz Sharif, Shehbaz Sharif and Maryam Nawaz will soon land in jail for their “massive corruption”.

Responding to Ahsan Iqbal’s media talk that people want that Imran Khan should be kept in jail for five years so that Pakistan could make progress, Mr Basra alleged the PML-N minister was actually defeated in the Feb 8 general elections and won through fake Form-47.

“The nation had spoken its mind in the Feb 8 general elections,” he said and added that the nation would not let the PML-N leader run away from the country through deals this time.

Published in Dawn, June 17th, 2024

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