ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan has said that he waits for the day when “(Prime Minister) Nawaz Shairf and his brother (Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif) are put behind bars.
Accompanied by other party leaders, the PTI chief led his supporters at the Parade Ground in the federal capital to celebrate ‘victory’ following the Supreme Court hearing of Panamagate petitions. Imran thanked party lawmakers from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and called Chief Minister Pervez Khattak a hero of Pakistan.
He also questioned the prime minister if he was not ashamed when the women workers of his party were manhandled. “Nawaz Sharif has been inaugurating one road after another since the Panama leaks came to the forefront,” he said. “Fazlur Rehman was making money from diesel permits and now he is taking money from Nawaz Sharif,” he said while criticizing the JUI-F leader.
He also said that former president Asif Ali Zardari and Opposition Leader Syed Khursheed Shah were ‘afraid of accountability’ as they were predicting its PPP term in the next elections. “This is not a solo flight and I am not going solo in the fight against corruption and millions of Pakistanis are with me,” he said. He said that it was the people’s right under a democracy to stage protest against corruption.
The PTI chairman also hailed the Supreme Court’s verdict, but questioned the effectiveness of national institutions like the National Accountability Bureau (NAB). He also referred to the Charter of Democracy as an “instrument of compromise and corruption.” He alleged that the charter has been used by both Nawaz Sharif and Zardari to indulge in ‘wholesale corruption.’
