ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif strongly slammed Imran Khan for threatening the country, warning him against talking about the division of Pakistan.
After Imran Khan’s controversial interview, PM Shehbaz tweeted: “While I am in Turkey inking agreements, Imran Niazi is making naked threats against the country. If at all any proof was needed that Niazi is unfit for public office, his latest interview suffices.”
“Do your politics but don’t dare to cross limits and talk about [the] division of Pakistan,” he warned.
While I am in Turkey inking agreements, Imran Niazi is making naked threats against the country. If at all any proof was needed that Niazi is unfit for public office, his latest interview suffices. Do your politics but don’t dare to cross limits & talk about division of Pakistan.
— Shehbaz Sharif (@CMShehbaz) June 2, 2022
In a separate statement on the PML-N’s Twitter account, the prime minister said Imran’s remarks were proof that the PTI chief was “involved in a conspiracy, not politics”.
He said Imran Khan was spreading chaos due to his “frustration and sick mentality”, and his statement was similar to Pakistan’s enemies.
“This is not a statement but a conspiracy to spark the fire of anarchy and division in the country,” the prime minister said. “Losing power does not mean that you wage a war against Pakistan, its unity and its institutions,” he said,
He warned Imran not to “attack” the federation and the country’s institutions. “Don’t exceed the limits by the law and Constitution.”
The prime minister said the nation would not accept such nefarious plans at any cost let them succeed. He vowed to defeat such “impure” aims.
‘Modi’s language’
Earlier, PPP co-chairperson Asif Ali Zardari also condemned Imran’s remarks about the breakup of Pakistan. “No one can talk about fragmenting Pakistan. This is not that language of a Pakistani but that of [Indian PM] Modi,” he said.
“Imran Khan, power is not everything in this world. Be brave and learn to do politics standing on your own feet,” Zardari berated the PTI chief.
He said the “wish of dividing this country into three pieces cannot be realised until we and our future generations live”. “God willing, Pakistan will survive till the Day of Judgement,” he added. Zardari instructed the PPP to protest Imran’s statement nationwide.
‘Right decisions’
The PTI chief stoked controversy after urged the establishment to make the “right decisions” and warned that if Pakistan were to lose its nuclear deterrence, it would break up into “three pieces”.
In the interview, he said the current political situation was a problem for the country as well as the establishment.
“If the establishment doesn’t make the right decisions then I can assure in writing that they and the army will be destroyed because what will become if the country goes bankrupt,” he said.
“Pakistan is going towards a default. If that happens then which institution will be hit? The army. What concession will be taken from us? Denuclearisation,” he said. “If the right decisions aren’t made at this time then the country is going towards suicide.”
