LAHORE: Senior Pakistan Muslim League-N (PML-N) leader Khawaja Saad Rafique on Monday said Pakistan Tehreek e Insaf (PTI) leader Aleem Khan had a meeting with former prime minister and PML-N supremo Nawaz Sharif in London. However, he refused to comment on Aleem Khan’s joining the PML-N.
He said the decisions were imminent and Prime Minister Imran Khan would have to go. Without clearly stating as to who he was referring to, he said PM Khan had started feeling pain now, when “they” had become neutral.
“Imran Khan had taken them with him on political basis, but they had gone with him on the basis of forced recruitment. Now when their leashes have been untied and people have become neutrals, the PM has started detesting the neutrals now. Everything was fine until he was getting support. Now when they have become neutral, he has started abusing and abasing them,” Saad Rafique said ostensibly pointing towards allies and members of the ruling party. He was talking to media in Lahore.
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He asked if it was a level of a prime minister to misbehave, call people names and speak unethically.
He said PM Imran was threatening that he would take one million people to the streets on the day of no-confidence motion. He said gathering people would not foil no-trust motion against him.
The PML-N leader said the only thing that Imran Khan had to do was to control his members to make the opposition’s movement abortive.
He said Imran Khan was forcing them to go to the D-chowk. You should try not to make Shahra e Dastoor a battleground, he advised.
“A large number of PTI members want to vote on calling of their conscience. Nobody wanted to go with Imran Khan,” he said.
