Pakistan Muslim League Nawaz (PML-N) vice-president Maryam Nawaz slammed former Prime Minister Imran Khan for talking about dividing the country into "three parts" and asked him what influenced him to talk like this.
Maryam asked, "Whose ideology is this? Israel or did Jack Goldsmith influence you with this ideology?" Jack Goldsmith is the brother of Imran Khan's ex-wife, Jemima Goldsmith.
Imran Khan recently said that if the government of Pakistan does not take the right decision, then the country may split into three parts and may also lose its nuclear deterrence. Former Prime Minister Imran Khan said this in an interview given to a private television channel.
During the TV interview, Imran Khan was asked, "If the public is not with you despite your popularity in the case of Benazir Bhutto, then you will not be able to come back to power. Keeping this in mind, what is your future strategy?"
Responding to Imran's statement, Maryam said that the whole country has paid attention to his words and is angry with him. "Imran has lost his conscience after losing power, but the truth is that the power never belonged to him," she said. "Whoever said this about the country, his party will be cut into 300 pieces," he said.
Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) chairman Imran Khan warned that once the country's economy is destroyed it will go into default and the world will ask Pakistan to move towards nuclear disarmament. He cited the incident in Ukraine in the 1990s. He also said that Pakistan is on the verge of "self-destruction" and will go "bankrupt".
Reacting to the former prime minister's remarks, former President Asif Ali Zardari slammed Khan and said that no Pakistani can talk of separating this country. He said in a social media conference that we want the Supreme Court to answer whether we have a fundamental right to protest peacefully or not. We will announce the date of our next long march as soon as the Supreme Court gives its verdict on the petition.
Zardari directed the Pakistan People's Party (PPP) workers to oppose Imran Khan's remarks across the country. PPP alliance partner PML-N leader Talal Chowdhury said that after losing power, Imran Khan has started talking about breaking up the country and losing nuclear assets.