Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) chief Imran Khan on Wednesday said the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) could open doors for the PML-Quaid (PML-Q) because it feared the growing popularity of the PTI.
He was addressing a meeting organised by the Insaf Students Federation (ISF) to discuss arrangements for the party’s public meeting on October 30. Khan said that PML-Q President Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain would be getting a phone call from Nawaz Sharif to join the PML-N in the “larger interest of the country and nation”. He said the PML-N had deviated from its earlier stance and had welcomed all its “turncoats” who deserted the party during the regime of General (r) Pervez Musharraf. Referring to the Sharif family, Khan said people ruling from Raiwind were afraid of the PTI and were making deals with the same people they had declared political outcasts. He said the PML-N and the Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) were both undergoing disintegration and lacked the power to stop the change that would come through the PTI. He said President Asif Ali Zardari was responsible for breaking up the PPP, and that both Nawaz and Zardari were losing their grip on their parties. He said the people of Lahore would decide on October 30 whether they wanted to join the PTI – Pakistan’s movement for justice – or the PML-N led by the “dengue brothers of Punjab”. He challenged the PML-N to organise a bigger gathering than the PTI’s on October 30.
The PTI chief said the PML-N leaders were mimicking the positions his party had been taking on various issues, because the PML-N had “no agenda of its own”. He said the law requires all politicians to declare their assets, however the “dengue brothers” and their “third brother, Zardari” had not submitted the details of their assets, nor would they do so. Mocking the PML-N even further, student leaders of the ISF said the Nawaz-led party could contact them if it needed numbers for its gathering on October 28.
Nawaz could even embrace PML-Q to survive, says Imran
