BLISTERING: Maryam Nawaz takes swipe at Imran Khan, says PM Modi doesn't give respect to him

Taking a swipe at Imran Khan, jailed premier Nawaz Sharif's daughter Maryam said Tuesday that Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi does t give respect to his Pakistani counterpart as he did t take his call in February when two nations were engd in aerial combat.

Speaking at an event held in connection with Pakistan's 1998 nuclear tests here in Model Town, Maryam said Khan complained that Indian PM Modi did t attend his telephone call amid heightened Indo-Pak tensions.

"I tell selected and incompetent premier (Khan) as why Modi and or hes of state in world do t give you respect. Because y kw that you have come to power after stealing people's votes with help of someone. You dance to tune of someone," she said, referring to powerful military establishment.

"Imran Khan... your status is thing more than a puppet. You are stooge having standing of yourself. You have respect in world," she thundered.

Maryam said Khan used to call Sharif 'a friend of Modi'. 

"It was Mr Modi who came to Pakistan to meet Nawaz Sharif. It was Mr Vajpayee who came to Pakistan to meet Nawaz Sharif as he was an elected prime minister and world give him respect. But in your (Khan) case, Modi is t rey to take your telephone call because he kws that you are a fake premier," she said.

"Let me make it clear I will t call you friend of Modi. We want peace with India. War is solution to problems two countries are facing," she ded.

Tensions flared up between India and Pakistan after a suicide bomber of Pakistan-based Jaish-e-Muhammed (JeM) killed 40 CRPF personnel in Kashmir's Pulwama district on February 14.

Amid mounting outr, Indian Air Force (IAF) carried out a counter-terror operation, hitting biggest JeM training camp in Balakot, deep inside Pakistan on February 26. next day, Pakistan Air Force retaliated and downed a MiG-21 in an aerial combat and captured an IAF pilot, who was handed over to India.

Soon after aerial combat, Khan said he tried calling Prime Minister Modi to convey that Pakistan did t want to escalate matter.

Maryam said because of inept and incapable prime minister Pakistan has become a beggar country in world. 

"This inept premier has handed over country to IMF against some dollars." 

She said it is ironic that man (Sharif) who me this country atomic power is in Kot Lakhpat jail Lahore and man (Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto) who laid foundation of atomic programme was hanged.