KARACHI: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman and former prime minister Imran Khan has said that Pakistan’s sovereignty and freedom were more important than his life, that is why he was going to people and telling them about the major international conspiracy hatched against Pakistan, despite his life is at “threat”.
Addressing a mammoth public rally in Karachi on Saturday night, he said that he was not against any country and wanted friendship with everyone, but did not want to become the slave of any country.
“I am neither anti-India nor anti-America or anti-Europe, but with humanity across the world,” he added.
In his address, Imran Khan thanked the people of Karachi to come out for the gathering. He informed the charged crowd that the problem was about the country’s future.
The PTI chairman asked the people to listen to him carefully so they could determine whether the ouster from power was an “interference or conspiracy”. He also asked the people to raise their hands and show whether they believed his removal was an “interference or a conspiracy”.
“A major international conspiracy was carried out against this country,” said Imran. He added that he was not against any country and stood with humanity.
The former prime minister also shared that in the US there is a “strong and powerful” Pakistani community
“My Pakistanis I want friendship with everyone but slavery with no one,” said Imran Khan. He added that before coming to Karachi people were telling him that his life is at “threat” as “mafias” are after him.
“Pakistanis my life is not as important as your freedom. This conspiracy is to make you slaves. One Mir Jaffer has been imposed on us via a conspiracy,” said Imran Khan. He also explained to the people who Mir Jaffer was.
Explaining the alleged conspiracy against him, Imran Khan told the people that he got to know three to four months ago that US officials had started meeting the Opposition, PTI’s dissident MPs, and journalists in the American embassy.
Imran Khan said that after those meetings when the US State Department official Donald Lu met the ambassador he knew of the no-confidence motion being tabled against his government.
The PTI chairman claimed that the official had threatened the envoy that if the motion is not successful “then it will be very difficult for Pakistan”, adding that he said Pakistan would be “forgiven” if the no-confidence motion is “successful”.
“Pakistanis tell me what more disappointing threat can be given to 220 million people. And who are they giving it to? The country’s elected prime minister,” said Imran Khan.
The former prime minister shared that after the meeting his dissident MPs’ “conscience” started getting awakened and the government’s allies started leaving.
“Tell me Pakistanis whether it was a conspiracy or not? Which country is threatened like this?” asked Imran Khan.
Imran Khan regretted that the country’s higher judiciary didn’t take suo moto notice of ‘horse-trading’ but opened the doors of courts at midnight to ensure that he was ousted from power.
He lamented that the courts started opening because some people feared that he will abrogate the Constitution.
“I ask the judiciary a prime minister of a country has been threatened… shouldn’t there be any investigation, before issuing the verdict,” he added.
He said that what crime he had committed that the courts were opened at midnight. “What crime had I committed? The person who had named his party on justice… I was the person who stood for the judiciary against Musharraf… I am the only politician in Pakistan who was declared Sadiq and Ameen by courts,” he added.
He asked the country’s judges what the Constitution says about those MNA who were elected on PTI’s mandate and later “sold their conscious for Rs200 million”.
“I ask the judges with the respect that shouldn’t you had taken a suo moto action,” he said.
He said that many members of parliament became part of an alleged global conspiracy against Pakistan by selling their consciousness and became part of ousting the PTI government. “Do not forgive such people,” he told the masses.
He said that as soon as the new government came, new orders came to “do more”.
He said that when he went to Russia he asked them to give Pakistan oil and wheat at cheaper rates and both our requests were accepted. “They (Russians) were willing to give us oil at 30% cheaper rates and were also willing to give us wheat at cheap rates too,” he added.
