PESHAWAR
Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman and former prime minister Imran Khan on Friday said that the ‘imported government’ built rhetoric of inflation against his government but dropped price-hike bombs on the people only in two months.
He said that India and Israel wanted to see the disintegration of Pakistan while lamenting that the US also does not want to see a stable Pakistan. He was addressing a public rally in the Buner district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP).
He claimed that the Sharif family has deep relations with Indian Prime Minister Modi and Indian businessmen, adding that being the prime minister, Nawaz Sharif did not meet Hurriyat leaders of Kashmir because it would have displeased his Indian counterpart.
Imran Khan said that Asif Ali Zardari is the ‘biggest disease’ of the country whose sickness is ‘money’. PTI chairman said that he showed the alleged threatening letter to the National Assembly (NA) and President Dr Arif Alvi also asked the Supreme Court to probe into the alleged conspiracy but no heed was paid.
He added that the Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM) built up the rhetoric of ‘inflation’ against the PTI government while he compared the prices of daily use commodities such as cooking oil, flour, vegetables, etc during the tenure of the PTI government and the ‘imported government’ in two months only.
He also compared the fuel and electricity prices between the two tenures. PTI chairman said they were also pressurized by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to raise prices but they did not succumb to it unlike the incumbent government whose leaders are living abroad and they have no stake in the country.
He reiterated that the Sharifs and Zardari did not speak up against the drone attacks in Pakistan, adding that they could not dare to speak against the foreign powers because their wealth is parked abroad.
Speaking on what was the cost of toppling his government through a US-backed conspiracy, he said Pakistan’s GDP growth peaked to nearly 6% while industrialization witnessed acceleration after Ayub Khan’s era.
Imran Khan said the foreign reserves have depleted sharply only during the two months of the ‘imported government’ while the stock market has crashed nearly 10% meaning that Rs700 billion have been taken out from the market.
He said the international credit rating agency Moody’s also reduced the rating to negative from positive. Imran Khan said he had informed the ‘neutrals’ through his finance minister Shaukat Tarin that the ouster of his government through a conspiracy would result in economic collapse of the country, reiterating the example of Soviet Union.
Speaking on the reports that the government is filing a treason case against him, the former prime minister asked if the people like Nawaz Sharif and Asif Zardari, who held a tainted track record of speaking against the institutions, would run a treason case against him. He said that the conspiracy of the treason case is an attempt to ‘remove him from the path’.
PTI chairman said the only aim of the ‘imported government’ is to get rid of their corruption cases. He also criticized the presence of Shehbaz Sharif’s absconder son in the meeting with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an, adding that the government is not only causing damage to the economy but morals.
The former prime once again criticized Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) of being a partisan of the incumbent government and said rigging has been initiated through gerrymandering because the coalition parties cannot win in the elections on their own.
He said the government has also started to intimidate people through the police and framing fake cases.
He added that the violence the imported government resorted to against the ‘peaceful protesters’ was unprecedented and vowed to fight against the ‘oppressors’ of this era till the last drop of his blood.
PTI chairman said they would wait for the final verdict of the Supreme Court on the petition seeking protection of the long marchers.
