‘Opposition disregarding people’s lives’: PM Imran criticizes PDM leaders

ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Imran Khan has strongly criticized the leadership of the Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM), saying that the opposition leaders were deliberately risking the lives and safety of the citizens by holding public gatherings amid the second wave of COVDI-19 pandemic.

Taking to Twitter, the Prime Minister asserted that the opposition leaders’ only goal was to save their ‘corruption’. “This is all that guides their politics, not any concern for the lives of ordinary citizens,” PM Imran added.  

“When we imposed smart lockdown to save our poor from becoming destitute and save the economy from total collapse, these leaders opposed and demanded a complete lockdown,” he said, adding, “Now, with new spike, when we again need smart lockdown, they want jalsas not caring for the lives & safety of people.”

Now their sole & desperate goal is to save their families looted wealth & corruption of which they are an integral part. This is all that guides their politics, not any concern for the lives of ordinary citizens. Their desperation to get NRO any which way they can motivates them.

— Imran Khan (@ImranKhanPTI) November 29, 2020

PM Imran, in another tweet, said, “Problem confronting us in Pak during COVID 19 is of a political leadership that has never gone through any democratic struggle, nor worked with ordinary citizens to understand the problems they confront, nor contributed in any substantive way for the betterment of ordinary citizens.”

They think this is their last means of pressuring us for NRO – which will never happen. Having never worked a day in their lives, their “shahi” lifestyles are directly dependent on saving their families ill-gotten, illegally acquired wealth through robbing & impoverish the nation

— Imran Khan (@ImranKhanPTI) November 29, 2020

The Prime Minister pointed out that the opposition was trying to pressurize the PTI-led federal government to get a National Reconciliation Ordinance (NRO), ‘which will never happen’.

“Having never worked a day in their lives, their “shahi” lifestyles are directly dependent on saving their families ill-gotten, illegally acquired wealth through robbing and impoverish the nation,” the premier added.