Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman and deposed prime minister Imran Khan warned the government that the country will spiral toward violence if the government booked or resorted to the use of power on people participating in the long march on Islamabad.
Addressing the media in Islamabad on Sunday, he said staging peaceful protests is their constitutional right.
Imran Khan added that if the people are put in jails before the long march, the judiciary needs to decide if democracy exists or was it just for the PTI government. “The kind of criticism we faced in our tenure was unprecedented in the history of Pakistan,” he stated.
Imran Khan said, “Today’s time is different from the 70s era. The communication cannot be controlled now. The people are infuriated.”
“I had never thought that the people – even kids – would have so much awareness.” PTI chairman said the people are in sorrow after what has happened [with the PTI government].
He said the people are taking to the streets because a corrupt cabal has been imposed on the country.
He said the PTI has never resorted to violence and neither incited people to do so.
He warned that the country would spiral toward violence if the people are put in jails. “The public will not tolerate anything and if the people are booked – things will move to the next stage – and how they will run the government then,” Imran Khan warned.
Further, he claimed that Rs16 billion money laundering case of FIA against incumbent Prime Minister (PM) Shehbaz Sharif is the strongest case and lamented that the justice system has failed to deliver.
Imran Khan said none of the cases against the Sharif family was disposed of except the Avenfield case. “Sometimes the benches were broken – sometimes there was backache and wheelchair.”
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He said they are fighting with a mafia and iterated that the Supreme Court had also declared the Sharif family a Sicilian mafia.
He accused PM Shehbaz Sharif of getting the most number of people killed in the police encounters in the last three decades. PTI chairman said half of the people coming out on roads is due to faces in the current government.
Talking about the incident in Al-Masjid an-Nabawi, he said the people of the incumbent government will face the same public reaction as they faced there.
Talking about the National Accountability Bureau’s (NAB) reference against Farah Khan – who is a close friend of Khan’s wife Bushra Bibi, he said. “Farah is being targeted to hit me as they have found nothing against Imran Khan.”
He said the NAB’s case against Farah of assets beyond means applies to a public-office holder.
PTI chairman added that Farah Khan is being targeted like Jemima Khan, his first wife. He said,“We knew what they would do, and we are prepared.”
Farah is involved in the real estate business, and you can find out how much money people made in the sector during PTI’s tenure, he said.
Furthermore, he said the PTI doesn’t have confidence in the chief election commissioner (CEC) as he is biased.
Answering a question, Imran Khan said the institutions also need to play their due role, adding that even a banana republic would have probed into the [alleged US-led] conspiracy of such magnitude against a sitting government.
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