Says Nawaz will use Army Chief’s appointment for personal gains | Nation looking at CJP Bandial for justice in ‘landmark cases’
LAHORE
Former prime minister and Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) chairman Imran Khan said on Tuesday while urging Chief Justice of Pakistan (CJP) to deliver justice said that the lack of justice in Pakistan is the cause of the country’s destruction and the Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) is also an ally of the ruling PML-N, while it is being controlled by handlers.
Addressing long march participants of Punjab and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa through video link on Tuesday, he said that the risk of repaying loans to banks was 5% during PTI govt’s tenure that has now exceeds 5.64 percent which means our economy has been devastated.
Imran Khan said during the government of PTI till April, the risk of returning the loan from Pakistan’s banks was 5 percent, now it had increased to 64.5 percent.
“This means that our economy has been murdered and the nation should understand what has happened to them,” he said adding that “the world is understanding that Pakistan’s economy is weak and it will not be able to repay its loans”. He added that foreign investors are always reluctant to invest in a weak economy.
Imran further alleged that Sharif and Zardari’s families have increased our loans by four times. “If we default, the rupee will depreciate further because dollars won’t come in and people won’t invest,” the former premier said.
“Sharif and Zardari have increased our loans by four times. If we default, the rupee will depreciate further because dollars won’t come in and people won’t invest,” the former prime minister added.
Former premier Imran Khan that he had warned the “handlers” six months back that the conspiracy to bring imported government into power will cause losses to the national economy. But they paid a deaf ear to my advice, he said added that who is responsible for the economic crisis in Pakistan today.
PTI Chairman Imran Khan stated that the only solution to the economic crisis in the country was free and fair elections. Imran Khan has called on Chief Justice of Pakistan (CJP) Umar Ata Bandial, saying that the nation was looking at him for justice in three ‘landmark’ cases.
The former premier called on CJP Umar Ata Bandial to hear three ‘landmark’ cases: senior journalist Arshad Sharif’s murder; Senator Azam Swati’s custodial torture; and the Wazirabad FIR issue.
Giving details of the cases, Imran Khan noted that senior journalist Arshad Sharif was threatened and fake cases were registered against him. “He [Sharif] was forced to leave the country and was later killed in Kenya,” he added.
“Senator Azam Swati’s case is also a landmark one. He was taken from home on a tweet and was beaten in front of his family,” the former premier said, adding that the Senator was later stripped naked and tortured.
Imran Khan noted that being a citizen of Pakistan it was his constitutional right to register a first information report (FIR). “However, despite being the former prime minister, I could not register FIR after an assassination attempt,” he added.
“CJP Bandial, the nation was looking towards you because we don’t have hope from anywhere else,” he said, adding that it was high time the courts became assertive and stood with the people of Pakistan.
He again called for fresh elections, saying that the only solution to the economic crisis in the country was free and fair elections. “The risk Pakistan has today it shows where we are heading, we wouldn’t be getting investment or loans or exports,” he said.
Imran Khan has accused the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) of working on an agenda against the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI).
“Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Sikandar Sultan Raja passed decisions against us eight times and all of them were rejected by the judiciary,” he pointed out. The former premier lamented that the ECP only heard PTI’s foreign funding case and an investigation was conducted in a biased manner. =DNA
