Maryam berates premier for 'delaying tactics' in funding case.

LAHORE -- PML-N vice-president Maryam Nawaz says Imran Khan's administration is a 'government of the mafias, for the mafias, by the mafias,' saying the more he stays in power, the more the people will suffer.

'(This is a) government of the mafias, for the mafias, by the mafias,' Ms Nawaz said in a series of tweets on Thursday, chiding Prime Minister Imran Khan for adopting delaying tactics in the PTI foreign funding case for the last seven years.

'For the last seven years you (Imran) have been resorting to different gambits like changing your lawyers, stopping the Election Commission from checking your party accounts and seeking in-camera proceedings in the foreign funding case. Now suddenly you changed your stance and sought for open hearing of this case. You need to wait for a little to see what more is going to open,' she said.

Ms Nawaz also criticised the PTI government for increase in petroleum and electricity prices, saying that the more this man (Imran) remained in office, the more the masses would suffer.

On the other hand, PML-N information secretary Marriyum Aurangzeb has challenged Imran Khan to fulfill his promise of making all records of the foreign funding case public.

'Imran was only fooling himself with a claim that he wanted open hearing of the PTI foreign funding case. The people of Pakistan will not buy such lies...