ISLAMABAD: Former Prime Minister and Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan urged ‘neutrals’ to review their policies and said that sometimes decisions taken behind doors don’t turn out to be right. Addressing an event here, he said that he wanted to ask neutrals if they know where country is heading.

 Speaking about corruption, Imran Khan said PPP and PML-N in 1990 were thrown out due to corruption, adding that both parties made corruption cases against each other and former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and Benazir Bhutto sent millions of rupees abroad in 1996.

“Nawaz Sharif built 17 factories during his tenures as prime minister country,” he said and added his party supported former President Pervez Musharraf thinking that he would root out corruption from country but he gave them NRO. Former PM said that he thought that establishment would react seeing their-PPP and PML-N corruption, adding that even ISI told him about corruption.

Regarding NAB, PTI Chairman said unfortunately, anti-graft watchdog was not in their control and later he came to know that NAB had support. “I would have recovered $ 15 billion from plunderers if NAB had been in my hand and put them in jails.” Imran Khan alleged that attempts were being made to disqualify him and break his party, saying that country was in a phase where people were being psychologically pressured into accepting new setup. “They are using every tactic for it,” he pressed. “Way people are being picked up from social media and they are being forced to say that Imran Khan forced them to say things against Army.”

Imran said that journalists such as Sami Ibrahim, Sabir Shakir and Arshad Sharif were being threatened.

PTI Chairman further condemned “torture” of his chief of staff Shahbaz Gill. “They have completely broken him down and I believe our society has fallen to a point where I am ashamed. And they are doing all this only so that we accept these thieves.” He said that plans were being made to break PTI.

Published in The Daily National Courier, August, 19 2022

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