Islamabad, Oct 20 (UNI) Pakistan Muslim League Nawaz (PML-N) leader Maryam Nawaz has slammed Prime Minister Imran Khan over his statement on turning the country into "Riyasat-e-Madina".
Taking to Twitter, Maryam wrote, "In a country where people are dying of starvation, parents are fed up with inflation and children are committing suicide by poisoning themselves, the ruler of this country is talking about the state of Madina whose caliph used to carry sacks on his shoulders and knock on the houses of the poor?"
"How can a person be this insensitive, deaf, dumb and blind?"
The Express Tribune quoted her as asking the PM - what does a person, who travels from one shrine to another by helicopter at the government's expense, know what people of Pakistan are going through under this regime?
"Someone whose dogs breed on high-quality meat should think a thousand times before mentioning the name of the state of Madina. But even for that thought, one’s heart must be full of compassion and not malice," she wrote in another tweet.
“Can someone please remind this fake and fearless of God ruler of Hazrat Omar Farooq's (RA) saying that even if a dog dies hungry on river banks, then Omar (RA) will be responsible.
"Hazrat Omar (RA) despite being the caliph gave an account for his shirt and robe and you [on the other hand] looted foreign gifts from Toshakhana? And brazenly said that I will not answer?”
Her attack on Imran Khan came hours after he said Pakistan will be made a “Madina-like welfare state”.
“The system of the state of Madina was based on justice and merit, even a general was promoted to the higher rank on the basis of performance,” he said while addressing Rahmatul Lil Aalameen Conference in Islamabad.
“We can rise as a nation by following the guiding principles of Prophet Muhammad (PBUH),” she added.
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