PML-N strongly condemns PM Imran's remarks regarding 'presence of mafia' in newspapers.

The PML-N's spokesperson, in a statement issued on Friday via Twitter, strongly condemned Prime Minister Imran Khan's remarks from a day ago in which he said there was a "presence of mafia" in newspapers.

On Thursday, while speaking at the groundbreaking ceremony of the Jalalpur Canal project in Pind Dadan Khan town of Jhelum, PM Imran said 2020 would be the year of economic stability in Pakistan and would prove to be a tough one for mafias.

Elaborating further, he said mafias were present in the Federal Board of Revenue and other government institutions, in politics and in newspapers. He said newspapers carried bad news [against the government] everyday.

"Those journalists who had benefited from the corrupt system in the past were now writing against his administration," he said.

Responding to the premier's remarks from a day ago, PML-N spokesperson Marriyum Aurangzeb in a strongly-worded statement shared on Twitter, strongly criticised the prime minister for "calling the media a mafia".

"An incompetent, incapable and selected prime minister is saying that there is a mafia in the media. It is shameful, regrettable and deplorable," she said.

Aurangzeb said a "person involved in money laundering, imprisoning his opponents in death-row cells, closing down the parliament, and risking the livelihoods and businesses of citizens" was referring to the media as a mafia.

She further accused the prime minister of destroying the economy and handing over the country to the International Monetary Fund while joining hands with thieves...