ISLAMABAD: Ousted Prime Minister Imran Khan has said that PTI’s movement against the government would continue and no tactic of the government could stop it.
Addressing a gathering of lawyers at Bani Gala on Tuesday, PTI Chairman warned the government that whether it puts his party members in jail or employs other tactics, PTI’s movement against it would not stop.
“The government is trying to throw me in jail to stop our movement, but I am telling you, whether you put us in jails or resort to other measures, this movement will not stop,” the former prime minister said.
Khan vowed that PTI would not call off its anti-government movement and said that it would continue until the date for the next general elections is announced.
The ex-prime minister said he needed lawyers the most at this time to strengthen the movement. “It is the lawyers and the judiciary’s responsibility to ensure that the rule of law is upheld in the country.”
The PTI chairman said the “incumbent government was imposed on us through a conspiracy” and that was why his party was protesting. He told the gathering that this was a “decisive” time for the Pakistani nation.
Khan criticized the coalition government and said that Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and his son — Chief Minister Punjab Hamza Shahbaz — were about to be “convicted”.
The ex-prime minister said as soon as the incumbent government officials go out to meet the masses, they start chanting slogans of “traitors” to insult them.
Khan, criticizing the government further, said during the PTI’s tenure, the gross domestic product (GDP) was at 5.6% in the third year and 6% in the fourth year.
He said international credit rating agency Moody’s has changed Pakistan’s economic outlook to negative, following which, Pakistan will not get loans from money lenders. “This government has put the country’s future at stake.”
The ousted prime minister told the government that it should take a stern stance on the matter of Holy Prophet Muhammad’s (PBUH) blasphemy in India and should end its “friendship and business” with New Delhi.
Khan further suggested that the government should boycott Indian products.
