Imran seeking help of 'judicial establishment', says Maryam.

LAHORE -- Chief organiser of the ruling Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) Maryam Nawaz has said that former premier Imran Khan desires to be 'selected again', this time through what she called 'judicial establishment'.

'This time Imran Khan has found 'judicial establishment' for his selection [as prime minister], while the remnants of Gen Qamar Javed Bajwa are still there in the [military] establishment,' she told a gathering of PML-N lawyers' wing at her Jati Umra residence here on Sunday.

According to her, the PTI is demanding immediate elections only because a new chief justice of Pakistan would take charge in October while PTI's politics revolved around some appointments.

'First they relied on the establishment and now the judiciary. They tried to make the army chief's appointment controversial. They have always depended on facilitators. Now, they are banking on the remnants of the former establishment to save them.'

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Referring to retired Gen Bajwa's interview in which the former army chief reportedly said that judges would give verdicts under pressure of their spouses and offspring, Ms Nawaz claimed that the day the Panama Papers verdict against her father and then prime minister Nawaz Sharif was announced, the families of then chief justice Saqib Nisar and Justice Asif Saeed Khosa were present in the courtroom and they had 'prior knowledge of the verdict'.

While criticising the judiciary over its alleged preferential treatment towards Mr Khan, the PML-N leader lamented that the PTI chief got bail in as many as 12 cases in just 'five minutes'. She said Mr Khan abrogated the Constitution as prime minister and the Supreme Court also ruled against him, yet he got off scot-free as the state looked on. 'In fact such an act warrants trial under Article 6,' she remarked.

The PML-N leader said the landmark decision of the Election Commission of Pakistan in the PTI 'prohibited' funding case mentioned irrefutable evidence, yet no court touched the PTI chief. Criticising the 'favourable' treatment, she claimed to have information about certain people in the Lahore High Court who would create chaos in the country if exposed.

On the other hand, she added, injustices were done against...