SEHWAN: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan on Monday said that it is a sad state of affairs since the “elected prime minister (Shahid Khaqan Abbasi) considers Nawaz to be the real prime minister”.
While talking to reporters in Sehwan, the PTI chief said that the entire government is trying to save a former prime mister who was disqualified by the Supreme Court.
PTI conducted a rally in Sehwan on Sunday, in an apparent move to garner support for the upcoming general elections in 2018. It is important to mention the convention was held on the same day when PPP Chairman Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari addressed a political gathering in Peshawar.
PTI chief stated that the party’s demand for early elections in the country is “a need of the hour”. He said that the PTI will take the public to the streets if any NRO happens this time around.
He claimed that the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP), which rules Sindh, will be defeated in Sindh for the first time in the next general elections.
Speaking on the issue of PTI leader Jahangir Tareen, the PTI chief said the heads of institutions such as the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP), Security and Exchange Commission of Pakistan and Federal Board of Revenue are appointed by the ruling party and that these institutions are different from the Supreme court, which is an independent institution.
Imran Khan further stated that it was his democratic right to criticise the ECP and protest the issuance of his warrants by an anti-terrorism court (ATC).
Imran is facing arrest warrants from the ATC for the destruction of state property and assault on a senior police officer during the 2014 protest PTI/PAT sit-ins in the capital.
In response to a question, he said that the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) will be saved only if it completely disassociates from the party’s London-based founder.
