The Prime Minister termed Khan’s Abbottabad speech as an “anti-state” narrative and “conspiracy against Pakistan”, urging the Lower House to control the PTI chairperson’s tone….reports Asian Lite News
The National Assembly of Pakistan has passed a resolution condemning Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) chairperson Imran Khans “anti-army” statements during his public gathering in Abbottabad on Sunday, media reports said.
The resolution was tabled by Minister for Parliamentary Affairs, Murtaza Javed Abbasi, Samaa TV reported.
Addressing the National Assembly on Monday, Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif lambasted the PTI chairperson for his “aggressive speeches” against the state institutions and said Khan’s statements could cause anarchy in Pakistan.
The Prime Minister termed Khan’s Abbottabad speech as an “anti-state” narrative and “conspiracy against Pakistan”, urging the Lower House to control the PTI chairperson’s tone.
“You’re [Imran Khan] not in power today… You were a favourite of this institution and fed like a baby for three-and-a-half years,” Sharif said, adding: “This core institution has never supported any of the previous prime ministers the way it did Imran Khan Niazi.”
“It is unfortunate of him that despite [the support] he didn’t learn, perform or deliver to the nation,” he added.
The premier further said the “kind of support this institution” has given to Imran Khan has no example in the history of Pakistan.
“If we would have got even 20 per cent or 30 per cent of the support that Imran Khan got, we would have elevated Pakistan like an aircraft,” he said, Samaa TV reported.
Sharif added that despite being supported, Khan failed miserably.
“And today your ‘nobody-will-play-if-I-am-not-in-the-game’ approach is not good,” he said.
“If the kind of language he [Khan] used yesterday is not controlled in the constitutional way, it will spark devastation,” Sharif added.
Imran’s long march towards Islamabad
Former Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan, who was ousted from power through voting on a no-confidence motion by the opposition parties in the Parliament, has launched a serious political offensive against the Shehbaz Sharif-led coalition government through massive public rallies across the country, and is gearing up to gather at least two million people to march towards the capital Islamabad, choking major cities of the country, until his demand for immediate elections is met.
Imran Khan, chairman of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI), has been staging massive public rallies in major cities, gathering widespread support of the masses, calling them on to be ready to march towards Islamabad to stage a protest sit-in, creating intense pressure on the government to announce early elections.
PTI sources said the party plans to choke major cities and arteries leading to the federal capital. As per details shared by sources, PTI has finalised its plans to lead its anti-government long march, which include blocking routes leading to and from the capital Islamabad.
“As soon as the call for the long march is announced, various cities will be jammed. The points of convergence have also been determined for the demonstrations to bring the city to a complete halt,” a PTI source stated.
Tactics are also being finalised to escape possible arrests.
“In case the key leaders are arrested, a stand-in leadership will fill in for the central leadership to issue guidelines to the workers in the long march and a call will be given to intensify the protest against the forced arrests,” the source maintained.
While inside plans of PTI seem ready to resist any use of force against them, PTI’s Vice President and former Information Minister Fawad Chaudhry insisted that the long march will remain peaceful.
“It will be a peaceful protest by millions of people. Our protest rallies have been completely peaceful till today,” he said.
“Millions of people came out to show solidarity with the PTI and not even a branch of a tree was damaged. This protest will also be in the same mode,” he added.
It is pertinent to mention that Imran Khan has been holding massive public gatherings where tens of thousands of his supporters have been present, giving a clear and strong signal to the ruling government that his political acceptance exists strongly among the people along with his narrative that he was ousted from power through a well-planned ‘conspiracy’ of a regime change, led by the Joe Biden administration in the US and implemented through Khan’s opposition.
