LAHORE: Nawaz Sharif on Friday questioned how his political rival Imran Khan had already known that a big wicket was about to fall prior to the disqualification of Khawaja Asif.
Talking to party workers, the former premier asked who told the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) chief about Islamabad High Court’s (IHC) verdict.
He further asked, “He (Imran) should tell who told him that the elections could be delayed by a month or two.”
“Almighty will give us success against those who we are struggling against,” he hoped.
He maintained his stance that his competition was not with Imran Khan or Asif Zardari but against someone else in the next general polls.
On party tickets, Nawaz said that in the next general elections, only electable leaders would be selected.
“The rivals couldn’t even break our party. Only those deserted us who were turncoats,” the PML-N leader said in his address.
The PML-N supremo said that the Supreme Court is taking notice on every second issue in the country but is reluctant to look into the horse-trading held in the Senate polls.
Earlier on Thursday, both Nawaz Sharif and his daughter Maryam Nawaz criticised the PTI chief’s acquittal in the SSP Asmatullah Junejo attack case saying those who should be punished are being acquitted.
“Those who should be punished are being acquitted and those who should be acquitted are being made to appear before court,” the former premier said while addressing the media outside the accountability court hearing corruption cases against him.
“It is a strange situation, those who built motorways and generated electricity have been disqualified,” Nawaz lamented.
He continued, “The nation will decide in the upcoming general elections who should be disqualified and who is corrupt.”
