Imran Khan, Maryam Nawaz trade barbs after SC’s ruling in election delay case

Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz Senior Vice-President Maryam Nawaz (right) and Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf Chairman Imran Khan — AFP/Reuters/File 

• "PMLN is again threatening SC and CJP," blames Imran Khan.
• He appeals lawyers to again instrumentality the pb arsenic they did successful 2007.
• Who threw shoes connected the “photos of judges”? asks Maryam.

In yet different Twitter spat, Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) Senior Vice-President Maryam Nawaz and Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan accused each different of attacking the judiciary soon aft the Supreme Court’s ruling successful a case relating to the hold successful the upcoming elections successful Punjab and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.

Earlier, a three-member seat of the SC rejected the government’s petition for the enactment of a afloat tribunal to perceive PTI’s petition against the Election Commission of Pakistan’s verdict postponing elections for the Punjab Assembly till October 8.

Taking to Twitter, the deposed premier minister, who was ousted from bureau via a no-confidence question successful April past year, launched a caller salvo against PML-N and said: “As PMLN did successful 1997 by storming SC to onslaught CJ Sajjad Ali Shah proceeding a contempt petition against Nawaz Sharif, contiguous PMLN is again threatening SC & CJP due to the fact that they are petrified of elections.”

He urged the radical to beryllium acceptable to instrumentality to the thoroughfare if request beryllium for the involvement of regularisation of law, the Constitution, and democracy.

“We volition beryllium talking to each those governmental parties who are prepared to basal up against this conspiracy,” helium added.

Khan besides appealed to the lawyers' assemblage to again instrumentality the pb arsenic they did successful the 2007 Lawyers Movement to support “Pakistan's Constitution and the regularisation of law.”

Strongly reacting to his tweet, his rival, PML-N’s Maryam Nawaz asked who threw shoes connected the “photos of judges” aft Khan was fixed the rubric of “constitution breaker”. She besides asked who parked trucks extracurricular the courts.

“The marks that your facilitators person enactment connected themselves volition travel them and you,” she added.