Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan on Saturday said the security given to Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz President Nawaz Sharif was many times more than the security apparatus protecting the queen of England, Elizabeth II.
During a media session in Wazirabad, Khan said 1,260 security officials were deployed to secure the Sharifs family, whereas the PTI leadership did not even have basic security.
The PTI chief said his party would never form an alliance with any status-quo political party that had taken Pakistan to the brink of destruction.
He said Pakistan was losing up to Rs 7 billion a day to corruption and the incumbent rulers were transferring the nation’s money into their foreign accounts.
Khan said with the help of the country’s youth, he would defeat the PML-N, adding that success in by-polls did not mean the party would perform the same feat in the upcoming general election.
He said rule of law should prevail and his party fully supported the judiciary.
Commenting on the current political system, the PTI chief said the apparent failure of democracy did not mean that one started welcoming dictatorship. He said small groups could not stand in the way of PTI’s tsunami.
Khan added that the rulers wanted to discredit the Supreme Court in order to conceal their corruption, which they had committed in the name of democracy and rule of law.
Commenting on the law and order in Karachi, he said a handful of miscreants had taken the economic hub hostage for their vested interests. “The peace of the city may be restored when the main political parties and stakeholders show utmost sense of responsibility impressed by true passion of patriotism,” he said
Khan added that the PTI would not back any status quo, rather it would launch its election campaign while keeping in view the very interest of the nation.