Awami Muslim League Chairman Sheikh Rashid Ahmed on Monday said that the year 2016 would be the last year of Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) in power, as he had earlier predicted.
Talking to Pakistan Today Editor Arif Nizami in his talkshow DNA on Channel 24, Sheikh Rashid said that if National Accountability Bureau (NAB) Chairman Qamar Zaman Chaudhry stands defiant in wake of pressure over the Bureau’s actions against rampant corruption in Punjab, especially by the ruling party, the PML-N government would fall like a house of cards.
“The Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) is hands in glove with the PML-N and is playing the role of a friendly opposition but even this cooperation would not result in freedom for Dr Asim Hussain from the legal cases brought against him by the law enforcement agencies,” he said.
On the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government’s decision to amend the Ehtesab Ordinance and the subsequent resignation of the provincial accountability watchdog’s director general Hamid Ali Khan, Sheikh Rashid said that he had taken up the issue with the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) leadership and would again discuss the issue with PTI chief Imran Khan, who he said was the only hope for Pakistan.
Rashid said that his relation was with Imran Khan and not PTI as he was leader of his own party. “Sometimes Imran Khan heeds my advice and sometimes he doesn’t,” he said.