Top PTI leader warns PDM, media of ‘serious beating’

ISLAMABAD: Senior PTI leader and federal minister Asad Umar on Friday warned the Opposition alliance and media persons of a “serious beating” if they marched towards Islamabad.

The minister issued the warning to the Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM) while addressing a rally in the federal capital. Opposition parties have announced a long march to de-seat the PTI government and "save the country".

Umar accused the media of being a “facilitator” of the PDM and went on to address the supposed “PDM facilitators within media” saying: “Don’t even think of coming here. If you do, you will receive a sound thrashing.”

“Imran will neither bow before anyone nor is he frightened of any situation. Khan shot down two Indian jets when challenged by [Indian Prime Minister] Modi. Nawaz Sharif and his sons were forced to run to London along with their relatives.”

He said public money was meant for the people of Pakistan and not for buying flats in London.

The minister claimed that Pakistan was progressing steadily and the country’s economy was doing much better than the rest of the world.