BHAKKAR: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman and former prime minister Imran Khan on Tuesday said that he would not accept the “thieves” in power even if he lost his life.
Addressing a public rally in Darya Khan Tehsil of Bhakkar in connection with by-polls on 20 Punjab Assembly seats scheduled this weekend, he claimed that ‘Mr. X’ has deployed ‘Mr. Y’ in Multan for rigging in the upcoming by-polls in Punjab, but he said that the people would thwart all such efforts.
He said that the turncoats do not have a direction and their heads tilt where there is money and power.
The former premier addressed a huge public rally in Darya Khan Tehsil of Bhakkar in connection with the electioneering for Punjab by-polls scheduled this weekend.
“When a person doesn’t have a Qibla, he becomes a turncoat,” he said and grumbled that whoever is elected from Bhakkar turns out to be a turncoat.
He reiterated that the ‘crooks’ have been imposed on the country after a US-backed conspiracy and local abettors.
He said the by-polls are not an election, but their struggle has translated into a ‘jihad’ as he asked the women to go door-to-door to spread this message.
The former prime minister said those speaking against the imported government are being threatened through different tactics to demoralize them as he vowed to never accept the ‘cabal of crooks’ irrespective of how many FIRs are lodged against him or other pressure tactics are used.
Calling out the ‘local abettors’ and those who brought them to power, he said, “I will not accept the thieves even if I have to sacrifice my life.”
Imran said they would keep doing slavery for their entire life if thieves are accepted as rulers.
He also asked the Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Sikandar Raja to tell him how many times he visited PML-N’s Hamza Shahbaz and Maryam Nawaz.
During the rally, he also played different clips of contradicting statements by PML-N leaders.
Declaring the upcoming by-elections in the province a “fight for real independence”, Imran Khan urged the people to support him against the “turncoats and thieves”.
The PTI leader claimed that the parties in the coalition government had been plundering the national wealth and the country for the past 30 years, adding that he has been fighting against them for the last 26 years.
During his address, the ousted prime minister also lashed out at the PPP and its co-chairman Asif Ali Zardari. He alleged Zardari and his aides were sending Sindh’s money abroad.
Without naming PML-N’s Maryam Nawaz, Imran Khan said that a “liar queen” is leading the campaign of thieves.
Dubbing Suleman Shehbaz a “kickback specialist”, Imran Khan said that the Panama Papers revealed that Maryam Nawaz has Rs4 billion properties in London’s posh area.
The PTI leader said that they conceal the stolen money abroad to escape the accountability process. He urged the masses to inflict a defeat on the thieves to change their own fate on July 17.
