BUNER: Former prime minister and Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf chairman Imran Khan on Friday alleged that top leaders of the ruling coalition in the centre Nawaz Sharif of the PML-N and Asif Zardari of the PPP wanted to eliminate him from politics over high treason.<\/p>\n
The two most corrupt [former rulers of the country], who looted the country for 30 years, parked their illicit wealth in foreign banks and were convicted by the courts, are trying to get rid of me through a case of high treason. I want to make it clear to them that I am not the one, who will surrender to the imported government or any superpower, the former premier told a gathering of his partys workers here on Friday.<\/p>\n
Provincial Chief Minister Mahmood Khan, former defence minister Pervez Khattak, aide to the former prime minister Shahbaz Gill and local MNAs and MPAs also attended the event.<\/p>\n
Mr Imran alleged that leaders of the Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif-led coalition wanted to get corruption cases against them quashed.<\/p>\n
PTI chief says wont surrender to imported govt<\/p>\n
They (Zardari and Sharif) want to introduce a system of governance, where only small thieves are punished, while the big thieves get off scot-free. We, the patriotic citizens, have to fight against them and that system, he said.<\/p>\n
The former prime minister also accused the federal government of planning to rig the next general polls with the connivance of the Election Commission of Pakistan.<\/p>\n
He said the imported government had subjected PTI workers to unprecedented oppression during their recent Azadi March on Islamabad.<\/p>\n
Such cruelty hasnt happened even in the India-held Kashmir. I found out about it the day after our protest ended, he said.<\/p>\n
Mr Imran said the people should rise against that oppression and if they didnt do it, their children would suffer.<\/p>\n
He said he called off the Azadi March after consulting his lawyers over the Supreme Court directions about it.<\/p>\n
The former prime minister said he had never been scared of the corrupt and would prefer rendering his life to yielding to them.<\/p>\n
He said India, Israel and the US were opposed to a strong Pakistan and therefore, they hatched a conspiracy against his government to weaken the country.<\/p>\n
Mr Imran said the Indian TV channels and newspapers celebrated his ouster as the prime minister. He claimed that the ruling Sharif family had strong ties with the Indian business community.<\/p>\n
The former prime minister said the International Monetary Fund had pressured the last PTI government to increase oil prices but instead, the latter reduced those rates to the peoples relief.<\/p>\n
Our [PTI] government protected the people from inflation but the slaves of the United States, who are now ruling the country, hurled petrol bomb at them by hiking prices, he said.<\/p>\n
Mr Imran said the imported government was blindly following the IMFs orders.<\/p>\n
He said had his government not been ousted, he would have said absolutely not to the IMF.<\/p>\n
In a veiled reference to the security establishment, the former prime minister asked neutrals if the national security and integrity was not important.<\/p>\n
I had warned them [neutrals] there would be a huge economic setback if the conspiracy against my government succeeded, he said.<\/p>\n
The former prime minister said whenever Pakistani currency devalued, the wealth of Sharifs increased.<\/p>\n
He said as the prime minister, he didnt make personal visits abroad.<\/p>\n
Mr Imran asked the residents of Buner to respond well to his call to fight for the countrys real independence.<\/p>\n
Published in Dawn, June 4th, 2022<\/p>\n
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