Imran to Nawaz: You and me, one-on-one

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Faizan Zakaria Polani
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Announcing an unswerving fight with Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) President Nawaz Sharif, Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan on Saturday said he would have a one-on-one contest against Nawaz Sharif in the next general election.
During an exclusive interview with Pakistan Today editor and Samaa TV host Arif Nizami, the PTI chief categorically said, “I will challenge Nawaz in his stronghold in the next election.” He said the PTI was a political party adamant to bring change in the country as the people were fed up with the politics of old parties and wanted a change.
Warning: To another question in reference to his former wife Jemima Khan’s presence at his press conference in Islamabad the other day and the PML-N propaganda, Khan warned the PML-N against personal attacks and “propaganda campaign.” He said his party would respond in kind if such attempts were made.
He said the PTI had compiled a long list of PML-N leaders’ transgressions with evidence, adding that no such character assassination attempt would be tolerated. Khan said the Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) was not ruined by military dictators but its own Co-chairman Asif Ali Zardari. He said Zardari unmasked the real faces of all political parties by “purchasing them” and he should be given credit for that.
He said both the PPP and the PML-N were busy in cheating the people to prolong their rule. Khan said Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani had told him that he was asked by Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif to separate the PML-N from the government as the alliance would politically harm both parties and the PML-N would drastically lose its vote bank.
The PTI chief said Pakistan had two main problems, corruption and tax evasion, adding that the nation was being deprived of around Rs 3 trillion in the shape of tax evasion and corruption. He said if only Rs 1,000 billion was spent on public welfare including health, education and provision of justice for all, a revolution could be brought in the country.
He said that was why the PTI insisted on declaration of assets but neither the PML-N nor the PPP agreed to it as they had piled up the plundered assets abroad. Khan challenged Nawaz to declare all his property if he genuinely wanted to curb corruption, adding that Nawaz should declare how much of his property was outside and how much was inside the country and whether the property overseas was taken out lawfully.
Claiming to win the next general election, Imran said people had entrusted their future in the leadership of the PTI and after coming into power, the party would free Pakistan of the United States’ influence.

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8 COMMENTS

  1. May ALLAH help those who want to change the condition of this great country and its people, Ameen.

    Pls show your support by attending today's meeting, if you can. Or at least make dua for their success. Do something positive and be part this legacy.

  2. Long live Imran Khan, PTI Zinda Baad. We want positive change, not the same rotten stuff in cycles.

  4. We need amendments in our laws so that Income Tax Returns and Wealth Statements of all citizens should be public property. In the mean time, if any political leader has nothing to hide, he should voluntarily make this information public. I would call upon Imran Khan to come forward and set an example. If he does so, he will have greater moral authority to demand from others.
    In my opinion, the biggest tax evaders & corrupt in our society are businessmen followed by bureaucrats and politicians. I am not a politician but must say their corruption remains focus of media attention but their net corruption is negligible compared to other two classes mentioned though symbolic value is huge.

  5. Does anyone commenting realize that Imran Khan's struggle for removing the government and he is targeting the biggest proponent of making that possible. So he is actually acting as a an insurance policy of the current government and ge labels himself as the agent for change. WOW. This is an insult to the common intelligence of all Pakistanis.

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