Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) supremo Nawaz Sharif Wednesday said that Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf Chairman Imran Khan was bringing whole politics into disrepute through his actions.
During an informal talk with journalists outside the accountability court, Nawaz said the people of Lahore had rejected Khan three times in a row. “The people rejected Imran Khan in 2013. The results of the forthcoming coming general elections will be the same,” he said. The former PM also said Khan should share who really was taking wickets, adding that the PTI chief has made a habit of announcing the inevitable fall of a ‘wicket’ to leave Lahore.
“The young who previously supported Khan have abandoned him,” the PML-N chief said. They have cracked the reality of his revolutionary dreams, he said.
In an apparent jibe at Imran Khan, Nawaz said that the ‘chosen one’ had become accustomed to following diktats from ‘the top’.
Commenting on Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa CM Pervez Khattak’s recent remarks on how ‘orders from the top’ only referred to directives from the Almighty or Khan, Nawaz said Khattak was referring to other forces. “The entire nation knows what orders from the top mean. The top never meant Bani Gala,” he said, referring to the PTI-PPP understanding over the recently concluded Senate elections.
When asked whether he will go to the house of former interior minister Chaudhry Nisar, Nawaz refused to comment. As one of the journalists pointed out that Nisar had himself said that he would shun all differences if Nawaz Sharif came to him, Nawaz asked, “Did Nisar say this to you personally?”
Published in Daily Times, April 26th 2018.
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