No personal enmity with Nawaz, Zardari: Imran

JHELUM: PTI Chairman Imran Khan on Wednesday said he had no personal enmity with political opponents Nawaz Sharif and Asif Ali Zardari, and his fight was against corruption.

“I didn’t have any personal enmity with Nawaz or Zardari. Both of them take looted money abroad. Our fight is against thieves,” Imran said in an address to a gathering of PTI workers.

Continuing with his tirade against Nawaz, the PTI chief said Nawaz believed he could deceive the masses once again by electing his brother Shahbaz Sharif as PML-N president. “Shahbaz, it is your turn now,” he said. The PTI chief vowed to defeat the "thieves" and said his party would emerge victorious in the upcoming general elections.

Meanwhile, a scuffle broke out at the gathering, barely a day after a similar incident during a rally in Gujrat. Later, Imran, addressing another gathering in the city, Imran said the upcoming elections would change the country’s fate.

Mocking the PML-N, he said the party's leaders were afraid of addressing the public since shoe-hurling incidents at their rallies. Someone else was throwing shoes at the PML-N and the party was talking about PTI for that, he added.

"We are not afraid [of shoes being hurled at us]. If there is anyone from PML-N here, they can throw a shoe at me, I'm standing here," said Imran, standing atop a car. Meanwhile, Imran tasked PTI leader tasked Senator Azam Swati with contacting MQM, JI, senators from Fata and others to bring the opposition leader in the Senate.

They had a telephonic contact during which Imran said the PPP had got the position of deputy chairman and it was the right of the second largest party of the country to get status of opposition leader. He hoped that Chairman Sadiq Sanjrani and Deputy Chairman Saleem Mandviwala would a consensus to bring the PTI opposition leader in the Senate.