LAHORE: The Chairman of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Imran Khan has branded the incumbent government as “economic hitman”, saying thieves had ruined the country’s economy as Pakistan was facing history’s highest inflation.
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In a statement given the other day, he said the audio tapes were being released as part of a smear campaign aimed at blackmailing him and malign his image.
Imran Khan said conspiracy to oust him as prime minister (PM) was hatched inside the country with Hussain Haqqani conspiring against him. “What could be more treacherous than installing thieves on powerful positions and quashing cases against them”, he added.
He said “decision to hold negotiations with TTP was taken in a meeting of National Security Committee (NSC), and terrorism had been rooted out when PTI was in power, however, TTP staged comeback in Malakand as soon as our government was overthrown.” He warned that “to become part of ‘war on terror’ under US agenda would be counter-productive.”
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Strongly criticizing the present Shehbaz-led PDM government, he said the incumbent government had ruined all the institutions and Shehbaz Sharif destroyed Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) first after coming into power. “FIA official Rizwan died of cardiac arrest and four witnesses against Mr Shehbaz are no more”, he added.
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He went on to say that the amendments to National Accountability Bureau (NAB) law were helping powerful criminals reign free, and that the amendments had given license of corruption to the powerful.
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“When the court ordered the NAB to provide evidence of Nawaz Sharif’s ownership of London flats, the government rendered NAB and FIA dysfunctional [to avoid the court battle]”, he added.
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He said the appointment of Najam Sethi as the chairman of Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) would ruin cricket too as Mr Sethi had never played cricket. “Are even Mr Sethi and former PCB chairman Ramiz Raja comparable”, he questioned.
