Maryam Nawaz condemns Jang Group/Geo Editor-in-Chief's arrest.

ISLAMABAD -- PML-N Vice President Maryam Nawaz on Thursday expressed disappointment over the arrest of Jang Group/Geo Editor-in-Chief Mir Shakil-ur-Rehman's arrest.

Speaking to media, Maryam said that it was obvious from the Jang Group CEO's arrest that the government feared truth will come out in front of the masses. "You [government] are arresting the owner of a media house," she said. "This may stop the news but it will not stop the truth."

This was the first time Maryam was speaking to media after she was granted bail from the Lahore High Court in November 2019.

'There is a ban on airing me on media [...] my sympathies are with the media as they have never been in such a bad condition,' she said.

'I was quite because of personal reasons,' she said, adding: 'I will speak and you will find me in the front rows when the party leadership asks me to do so.'

She refuted reports about her father delaying his operation as she was not by his side in London.

'They say that my bothers are over there, yes they are over there and are looking after him, but we only have one father. I wish to be by his side during his operation. This is a legal wish and it shouldn't be politicised,' the PML-N leader said.

'One of Nawaz Sharif's vein is 80-90% blocked which will soon be operated on,' she said. 'If I am permitted to go abroad it is fine, otherwise I will ask Mian sahab to get his operation done as quickly as possible.'

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