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Serving a jail term now a piece of cake: Imran
ISLAMABAD/NANKANA SAHIB: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan said on Wednesday that his party would stage a massive rally on November 30 even if he was arrested and sent to jail. Addressing the participants of the Islamabad sit-in on Wednesday, Imran said that he would not apply for bail and that police could arrest him anytime. “I have lived in a container for many days. It is not difficult for me now to serve jail term,” he asserted. Imran termed the attack on PTV a “fixed match”, saying that it was an inside job. The PTI chief said that the whole city of Nankana Sahib has taken part in his party’s rally. “Our movement has spread to the whole country due to the sit-in,” he added. Imran warned the government that “if the PTI does not get justice until November 30” then it would be difficult for the government to function. He expressed these views while addressing the PTI rally in Nankana Sahib on Wednesday. He said that the prime minister has misunderstood the meaning of “Go Nawaz Go”, “as it did not mean proceeding to China, Germany and now London on extravagant tours”. Imran said that the government had agreed upon five to six demands of the PTI during talks. He said that the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) does not have the capability to run the country. Imran observed that Finance Minister Ishaq Dar now says that the PTI’s demands are illegal. He also said that the government is getting richer, while the country and its people are getting poorer. The PTI chief said that inclusion of spy agencies in the judicial commission to probe alleged election rigging was part of the negotiations with the government. He said that he and his party knows that the election was rigged “but they are giving the government a chance to make amends for its wrongdoings”. He said that the “PTI knows how the government published hundreds of thousands of ballots in the last two days of elections” and that who controlled the returning officers (ROs). Imran also said that “we know the media houses that aided the PML-N’s rigging”. Nawaz Sharif would have to resign and hold a re-election if rigging is proven, he added. The PTI chairman also accused Jang and Geo of helping the government to “cover up rigging in the elections”. Imran said that the leaders of political parties have agreed that rigging happened and yet did not urge the prime minister to resign. Imran also accused the Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) of rigging elections in Sindh. He asked if there was no rigging then why is the prime minister resisting vote re-count and investigation of the general elections 2013.
Courtesy www.dailytimes.com.pk