LAHORE: Former prime minister and Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan said on Thursday that If immediate elections not held, country will slip out of our hands.
He made these remarks while addressing the protestors, who had gathered outside the Punjab Governor House in Lahore to ‘bar’ Governor Baligh ur Rehman from taking any ‘unconstitutional’ step.
Khan criticised the coalition government for ‘running away’ from the elections, claiming that the ‘convict sitting abroad’ and Asif Zardari were scared. “They have a one-point agenda to hide their theft and they will hurt the country in the process. All they want is an NRO 2,” he alleged.
PTI chief once again called upon the institutions to play role in holding immediate and transparent elections. He asked the institutions if they were not worried about where Pakistan was heading and its future.
“Are you not worried today that our country is heading towards a point where there will be no coming back,” he asked and then stressed that snap polls was the only solution.
The former premier noted that as soon as elections are held, the country would get a chance to get out of this mess. “Without political stability, there is no economic stability,” he concluded.
In his address, he held responsible ‘one man’ for the ouster of his government, claiming that ‘one man’ was still behind the efforts to end his party’s politics.
Without naming anyone, Khan said that one man’s decision toppled his government and that was the reason why the country plunged into political and economic crises.
He lambasted the ‘one man’ over the ‘atrocities’ faced by PTI and its members and asked: “What was their fault. Only that we refused to accept the gang of thieves you imposed on us?”
The PTI Chief pointed out that the whole nation come out when his party was ousted. “It was giving one message that the imported government was unacceptable,” he added.
Imran Khan claimed that the ‘one man’ was still behind the efforts to end PTI’s politics. “When they saw that nothing was working out, they decided to kill me and remove me from the way,” he said, asking what more steps would be taken to force the nation to accept the imported government?
He also lambasted the move of leaking ‘videos and audios’ on social media, saying that such things were being done to black mail his party.
Khan lambasted the Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM) for submitting a no-confidence motion submitted against Punjab Chief Minister (CM) Pervaiz Elahi.
He noted that the PDM’s were making attempts to not let him exercise his “constitutional right” of dissolving provincial assemblies. “Initially, the PML-N challenged us to dissolve the assemblies. But now, when we did that, a vote of confidence and no-trust motions were moved in the Punjab Assembly,” he regretted.
The former prime minister pointed out that he wanted to dissolve the provincial assembles because they fear that if immediate elections are not held, the country will slip out of our hands.
