Targeting the government, she said the PML-N hadn't been subjected to such atrocities even when retired General Musharraf was in power and former prime minister Nawaz Sharif was in exile.  

"I don't even recognise this a government," she was quoted as saying by Geo News.

"This government does not deserve to be called a government," she said.

Maryam was quoted as saying by Geo News that the incumbent government was neither constitutional in spirit and neither did it have any legal basis. Referring to Prime Minister Imran Khan as a "handpicked" person, she said that he did not care about the people.

"The handpicked one is only concerned with himself and always wants to silence his opponents," she said. "The handpicked one does not concern himself with the masses."