Maryam is creating her own political grave with her remarks,Sheikh Rasheed

Sheikh Rasheed, the Minister of Interior, claimed on Sunday that PML-N Vice President Maryam Nawaz is “digging her political coffin,” alluding to her frank comments.

Rasheed’s comments came during a press conference a day after the Pakistan Democratic Movement conducted a massive public protest in Faisalabad’s Dhobi Ghaat field, where Maryam — who was representing the PML-N in the absence of party president Shahbaz Sharif — spoke out against the current leadership.

Bringing the army into a dispute at Dhobi Ghaat or Lahore’s Mochi Gate, the minister told Maryam, would “end in a political smackdown akin to what occurs in a dhobi ghaat” (when clothes are beaten with sticks while washing them).

He called Maryam’s decision to criticise governmental institutions “foolish.”

“She’s digging her political coffin with these judo karate-style manoeuvres aimed at slandering (institutions),” he observed.

Prime Minister Imran Khan is “going nowhere,” according to Rasheed, and will finish his five-year term. On the other side, he claims that deposed Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif “hatched a plot to go to London” and is now “weeping crocodile tears.”

Maryam had addressed the country at a gathering in Faisalabad yesterday that now is the time for them to decide their destiny and alter their fate, as she solicited their support to unseat Prime Minister Imran Khan.

She responded to the government’s recent statement, in which Minister for Information Fawad Chaudhry stated that the prime minister has the prerogative to appoint the Director General of the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), saying that while it may be his prerogative, “the people elect the prime minister.”

“First, the people should vote their own prime minister, and then he can determine what to do,” she stated, adding, “Imran Khan is not an elected leader; he is selected.”

Maryam said that Prime Minister Imran Khan “carried out a suicide strike on a state institution for the sake of power,” and that his position is “not for the Constitution.”

She also cautioned the prime minister not to attempt to be a “political martyr” by “trampling the honour of the vote beneath his foot.”

“The people are ready to ‘take care’ of you because of your recurrent tyranny,” she continued.