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Imran Khan warns of shutting down entire Pakistan on Dec 16
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chief Imran Khan Sunday reiterated his demand of the government to get the ‘election rigging’ probed by a judicial commission under the Supreme Court or else he will go and shut down the entire country on December 16.
“I will close down Lahore on December 4, Faisalabad on 8, Karachi on 12 and on December 16 I will shut down the entire country,” he warned while addressing a mammoth public meeting here as part of his party’s ongoing protest against the alleged rigging in the general elections of 2013.
Imran Khan said he had asked the government to probe the rigging charges by a judicial commission under the Supreme Court in four to six weeks while Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif may stay in his office and his sit-in also continues. But, unfortunately, no action in this regard was taken, he added.
Announcing his ‘Plan C’ he said, he would go and shut down cities including Lahore, Faisalabad and Karachi and finally the entire country if his demand of investigation was not fulfilled.
He said if the above strategy did not work then he would go further ahead and announce ‘Plan D’. “What I will do after December 16 will be beyond Nawaz Sharif’s tolerance,” he said.
He said soon after the 2013 elections he had requested the government, the then chief justice and the election commissioner, to carry out audit of ballot in just four constituencies. “We only wanted justice for the sake of democracy, but I didn’t know that all were a party in the match-fixing,” he alleged.
He said Pakistani system only nabs those who are weak while the biggest plunderers manage to get away with frauds involving billions of rupees. Millions of people don’t have access to clean drinking water while 25 million children are currently out of schools but the loot and plunder continues, he added.
Imran Khan said the entire leadership complained of rigging. “I ask the intelligentsia, the educated sections of society and lawyers only one question: If all of them admit the 2013 elections were rigged then why is it that only Pakistan Tehreek Insaf is out to protest against it?”
He said this clearly means that all the parties were in on it.
He claimed that 7 million additional ballot papers were printed two-three days before the elections. Caretaker government was with them. Chief Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry and Justice Ramday were used in the rigging.
“The poor people and the weak sections of the society including minorities only have the power of vote and if this is snatched from them then they are left with no hope for their future,” he said.
He said if things were allowed to continue as it is, then the educated and skilled people would never be able to participate and win polls in the present system of elections. Because, they don’t have the kind of money that is needed to get elected, he added.
Courtesy www.thenews.com.pk