Tareen will always be with PTI: Imran

By Our Correspondent

OKARA: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf Chairman Imran Khan, while calling former prime minister Nawaz Sharif a coward, has said the Pakistan Muslim League-N chief is incapable of initiating a movement against the judiciary.

The PTI chief was addressing a large crowd of party workers and supporters at Okara’s Football Ground on Friday.

He jibed at Nawaz’s statement about running a campaign to protest the SC judgment which cleared him on Friday. If Nawaz led a movement from one corner of the country, he would start a movement against them from the other corner, he said and added the Sharifs had been buying judges like Justice Qayyum. Shahbaz Sharif carried boxes filled with currency to Quetta to buy judges against Justice Sajjad Ali Shah.

He said after coming into power, he would hold Khawaja Saad Rafiq accountable. How did he become a billionaire through prize bonds, he said, adding that all PML-N ministers would have to answer for their accumulated wealth. He said Jemima was so much troubled by the Sharif family in Pakistan that she got disheartened. The Sharifs ran a blame-game against her and filed a fake case against her. He said the days of Shahbaz Sharif and Rana Sanaullah had also been numbered. He said Rana Sanaullah looked like a robber with his moustache.

He said in the disqualification reference against him, he provided 60 documents during judicial proceedings, whereas Nawaz only presented a Qatari letter to justify his wealth. He said the disqualification of Jehangir Tareen would not matter, he would always be with the PTI.

Pointing to Nawaz Sharif, he said corruption was carried out while holding power. “I have never been in power,” he said. “For four years, the PTI has been in power in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. Ask anyone have I ever built a factory, taken loan or did nepotism? If you prove even one thing,

I will leave politics,” he said and asked the participants to guard the rights of minorities.

He condemned a terrorist attack on a church in Quetta on Sunday and said the nation should give equal rights to minorities so that they could have equal participation in the making of “new Pakistan”. Earlier, he arrived at the venue and was seated alongside other PTI leaders including Shah Mehmood Qureshi, Chaudhry Sarwar and Aleem Khan on an 80-foot stage.