Better to quit govt than jack up prices Maryam.

Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz Vice President Maryam Nawaz unleashed a trenchant criticism of former prime minister Imran Khan and said it would be better to quit the government than to burden the people of Pakistan with price hike.

Maryam Nawaz, and her cousin Hamza Shahbaz - the Chief Minister of Punjab - addressed a large public gathering in Company Bagh, Sargodha. In their speeches they targeted the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman, calling him a 'fitna' that must be stopped.

'Imran is a snake in bosom and bit all those who had nourished him,' said Maryam Nawaz, daughter of former prime minister and PML-N Quaid Nawaz Sharif. 'If the institutions decided in his favour, it is okay, but when the decision comes against him, he abuses the institutions,' she added.

'Imran is a liar. First it was letter drama, but no proof; then there is the foreign conspiracy drama, no proof; then the drama of conspiracy of his assassination and again no proof. This 'liar Khan' has no proof of any of his dramas,' she said, firing a broadside against the PTI chairman.

Maryam Nawaz blamed Imran for all the problems facing the people of the country today. During his four year rule, she added, the former prime minister wiped out all the good things the Nawaz Sharif government had done for the people.

'If the dollar has skyrocketed today, then Imran Khan is the proof; if the country is stuck in debt today, the proof is Imran Khan; if oil prices had to be increased today, Imran Khan is the proof; If people are struggling to eke out daily meal, Imran is the proof,' she added.

'During Imran's tenure, load-shedding returned, terrorism resurfaced, debt increased. Still he [Imran] says that Shahbaz Sharif had destroyed the economy. What has been destroyed in four years cannot be cured in four days,' she continued.

Rubbishing Imran's charge that the PML-N government was unable to take any decision, Maryam Nawaz asked the gathering: 'Do you know how difficult it is for a government to take difficult decisions,' adding: 'It is better to leave the government instead of unleashing a storm of inflation on the people.'

She said that the PML-N and its allies removed the PTI government...