Lashing out at Imran Khan, former Punjab chief minister Shahbaz Sharif on Tuesday called the PTI chief the chief polling agent of former military dictator Pervez Musharraf.
Speaking at a news conference, Shahbaz said Khan can not separate himself from the support he gave to former president Pervez Musharraf during his referendum.
“I challenged him (to a live debate), but he fled,” Shahbaz said.
Imran Khan supported Musharraf during the referendum which was meant to validate his presidency.
The ongoing war of words between Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf chairman Imran Khan, PML-N head Nawaz Sharif and his brother Shahbaz Sharif is getting more interesting as the election day comes close.
“He [Khan] announced that he will contest elections from the same constituency as Nawaz Sharif but he retreated,” Shahbaz said.
“On another occasion, Khan sahib raised corruption charges against us regarding the Metro bus but when Transparency International investigated the issue Khan did not respond,” he added.
“He participated in eight elections and lost all eight of those,” Shahbaz said.
“Why does he not criticize the federal government and Zardari who resorted to corruption and is responsible for the load shedding?” he said.
Sharif further added that he believed the arrow, cycle and bat had joined hands ahead of the polls.
