PTI chief lashes out at Nawaz, Zardari

KARACHI: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf Chairman Imran Khan on Wednesday came down hard on the leaders of Pakistan Peoples Party and Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz.

Speaking to newsmen outside Karachi airport, Khan said Nawaz and Zardari are responsible for the country’s adverse situation. 

“The [2006] Charter of Democracy was an underhand deal between them. The entire country is in debt but they have become billionaires,” he said, adding, “Look at the children of Ishaq Dar, Nawaz Sharif and Zardari – they are all billionaires.”

The PTI chairman said that his focus is now on Sindh and announced that after Muharram he will visit various districts of the province. “In December, we will organise a huge public gathering at Mazar-e-Quaid,” he vowed.

Khan said that corruption is rampant in Sindh than any other province of the country.

“There is a commission on every project in Sindh and the money is being laundered to Dubai by [Zardari's sister] Faryal Talpur,” he alleged.

Khan said that Opposition Leader Khurshid Shah and PML-N chief Nawaz Sharif are on the same page as the sitting government gave huge development funds to the opposition leader, adding that a genuine opposition leader is needed to keep a check on government.

Taking a jibe at the PML-N chief, he said Nawaz destroyed every institution of the country by placing his cronies as their head in view of protecting his corruption.

The PTI chief also accused Maryam Nawaz of "openly coming out against the military".

Accusing the government of maligning the army, he said that no government in the world issues a statement against its security forces like the way the prime minister did. "The same language was used in Dawn leaks."

“It is the first time that the army chief is repeatedly saying that 'we won't impose martial law', 'we stand with democracy', but they have issues because the army has not become Punjab Police and the judges today are not Justice Qayyum who used to write decisions on their telephone calls.”