Announces to unveil date for long march after SC’s clearance
Staff Reporter
ISLAMABAD
PTI Chairman Imran Khan on Wednesday vehemently criticised the government and said the incumbent rulers would “not do anything without the approval of the United States”. Former prime minister said that he would announce date for the long march after Supreme Court’s decision. Addressing PTI’s national council on Wednesday, Imran Khan while asking the party workers to be prepared for his call one they get clearance from the apex court said that it will be the biggest protest in Pakistan’s history.
The former PM said while lashing out at the government said that they are afraid that if America is disgruntled with them, then they will suffer the same fate as the Russian oligarchs, claiming that from 2008 to 2018, adding that the US carried out 400 drone attacks on Pakistan, a number that had been unprecedented. Khan said the former president Asif Ali Zardari and former prime minister Nawaz Sharif did not condemn when the drone attacks were taking place in Pakistan despite Islamabad being an ally of Washington.
Taking a dig at PPP chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, the PTI chairman said, Bilawal did a long march towards Islamabad when Rs4 per litre was increased by his government. Where is he now when the fuel prices have been jacked up by Rs60 per litre? In the ruling tenure of the PTI government, the petrol was increased by Rs55 per litre, but the ‘imported government’ has raised its prices by Rs60 in just 15 days, he was quoted.
Former Prime Minister Imran Khan has once again been elected as the chairman unopposed of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) as other candidates had withdrawn in his favour. PTI leaders Umar Sarfaraz Cheema and Naik Muhammad were the other two contenders who were running for the top slog of chairman. Besides it, Shah Mahmood Qureshi and Asad Umar were also re-elected as the vice-chairman and the secretary-general of the party, respectively.
Khan was addressing party workers and leaders at the PTI’s National Council Meeting after he was re-elected as the chairman unopposed as other candidates had withdrawn in his favour.
PTI leaders Umar Sarfaraz Cheema and Naik Muhammad were the other two contenders who were running for chairman. Moreover, Shah Mahmood Qureshi and Asad Umar have also been re-elected as the vice-chairman and the secretary-general of the party, respectively.
The PTI chairman said they will “not take a stand for the nation” as they have billions of dollars stored in foreign bank accounts, which they will protect at any cost.
“They are afraid that if America is disgruntled with them, then they will suffer the same fate as the Russian oligarchs,” the PTI chairman said, claiming that from 2008 to 2018, the United States carried out 400 drone attacks on Pakistan, a number that had been unprecedented.
Khan said the leaders of that era — ex-president Asif Ali Zardari and former prime minister Nawaz Sharif — did not “utter a word in protest” when the drone attacks were taking place in Pakistan despite Islamabad being an ally of Washington.
Khan criticised the government for launching a crackdown on PTI workers and said that he had never imagined that such actions would be taken in Pakistan against the workers of a political party.
