She is ready to address public gatherings and has already given an indication that she will reveal more secrets in the coming days. It is not difficult to understand that the military establishment that staged an undeclared coup to throw Sharif out of office will eventually use every tactic to silence Maryam Nawaz now as she is proving dangerous for both the selected Prime Minister Imran Khan and the establishment itself. Sharif, though behind bars, stands victorious now, as this leaked video appears to have vindicated his claim that he was only punished for challenging the hegemony of the establishment. In any case, this video has raised serious questions on the credibility of the judiciary and the mindset of the establishment that is exploiting civil institutions to assert its authority. On Sunday a mysterious press release from Malik appeared in the media in which he stated that what he said in the video was quoted out of context and that he had undergone no pressure from the establishment to convict Sharif. Such is the power of the deep state that soon after Maryam’s press conference, Malik’s house was surrounded by men in plain clothes and no one from the media was allowed to get his version of events. After all, the judges of higher courts too may also have been blackmailed by the powerful establishment. Ideally in any civilized country a judge confessing about convicting an elected prime minister at the behest of invisible forces could result in the immediate reversal of that conviction, and could even topple the puppet regime of the establishment, but here in Pakistan this is least expected. The question now arises whether the Supreme Court of Pakistan will take any action and ask Malik who blackmailed him. However, in reality, she has taken on the battle, and her press conference has raised some very serious questions on the already weak judicial ruling against Sharif that threw him out of office and disqualified him from politics for life. She was of course referring to the establishment when she said she did not want to fight with any institution. She thundered that she had more pieces of evidence like this and if anyone from now on played a foul game she would reveal other videos as well. According to the judge, he was taken to an unspecified location and shown a video of himself that was of an “immoral nature.” Malik can also be seen in the video appearing to confess that there was no evidence of money-laundering, corruption or receiving any kickbacks against Nawaz Sharif, Maryam Nawaz, Hassan Nawaz, or Hussain Nawaz, but he was forced to rule against Nawaz Sharif.
In the video, Malik can be seen talking to his friend and saying that the invisible forces had a video of a highly personal nature and if it were ever leaked, he would not be able to sustain the pressure and might even commit suicide. Maryam held a press conference in which she showed the leaked video and a transcript in which Accountability Judge Arshad Malik allegedly confessed to a friend that he had been pressured by the invisible forces to rule against Sharif. On Saturday, Maryam Nawaz, the de facto head of the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz, revealed a video of an Accountability Court judge who convicted her father Nawaz Sharif in the Al-Azizia case. The political turmoil in Pakistan is getting deeper and deeper every day.