Imran used state organs to stifle opposition: PML-N.

LAHORE -- The Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz alleges that the Imran Khan government had attempted to try senior party leader Maryam Nawaz Sharif under Article-6 as the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf exploited state institutions during its tenure in power.

Punjab PML-N information secretary Azma Bukhari told a press conference that the former director-general of Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) Bashir Memon had disclosed that the Imran government had pressurised him to institute cases, including the one under Article-6, against the opposition leadership, particularly Maryam Nawaz Sharif.

She said the Imran government did politics of vendetta in the name of accountability during its four years in power.

'Imran Khan exploited state institutions to run his government and suppress his political rivals.'

Ms Bukhari said more and more 'facts' about the political vendetta would be exposed when proceedings of ex-Islamabad High Court Justice Shaukat Siddiqui's case in the Supreme Court would be held and former National Accountability Bureau chairman Javed Iqbal's 'story' would become public.

The PML-N leader alleged that through some [objectionable] video clips the Imran government had made the ex-NAB chairman to fall into line and exploit his powers for suppressing the opposition.

The video clips, she said, had been submitted by Tayyaba Faruq, a victim of Javed Iqbal's misuse of office authority, to the PM's Complaint Portal to save her from 'sexual exploitation' of then NAB chairman. But Imran used this evidence to blackmail Javed Iqbal and exploit NAB powers against the then opposition instead of providing justice to the complainant [Tayyaba Faruq], she regretted.

She said then principal secretary to prime minister Azam Khan met Tayyaba multiple times to get the evidence against...

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