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Tuesday, May 29, 2012
Alliance with PML-N, MQM impossible: Imran* PTI chief says 61pc parliamentarians don’t pay taxes
* Vows to bring country’s biggest march to capital if SC decision bypassed
Staff Report
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) chief Imran Khan’s onslaught against the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) continued on Monday, when he ruled out any electoral alliance with the party, as well as with the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM).
Addressing a press conference only a day after a mammoth public meeting in Liaquat Bagh, the PTI chief said that the PML-N had damaged the country like never before. He said that his party would not form alliance or coalition with any political force that supported the corrupt PPP-led government.
Imran said that a number of officials from the PPP and the PML-N were in contact with him and wanted to join his party, but the PTI was not taking them onboard. He claimed that Nawaz Sharif and President Asif Ali Zardari would never freeze each other’s accounts. “Whenever times comes to protect and defend the country and uproot corruption, Nawaz Sharif and Asif Ali Zardari join hands against the nation,” he said, adding that both the parties did not collect taxes from each other, and would never seek consensus against corruption. “Both these major political forces support each other over corruption,” he said. He also advised Nawaz not to give money to charities for the sake of publicity, an apparent reference to the PML-N’s criticism of Imran Khan for taking charity from the PML-N president for his educational and health projects.
He also lashed out at the sitting parliament when he pointed out that 61 percent of Pakistani parliamentarians did not pay taxes, adding that Nawaz Sharif had also not paid a single penny in taxes during the last three years.
Imran said that allegations levelled against the PTI for being assisted by the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) and the MQM had been proven false.
“Holding a massive rally at Liaquat Bagh on Sunday when former ISI DG Ahmed Shuja Pasha was no longer in office is a clear proof that the PTI has nothing to do with intelligence agency,” he added. He said that Pakistani youth had decided to bring a change in the country and it could not be thwarted. “The wave of change is underway in the country, and no one can restrict this change from happening,” he said. “The opponents of the PTI do not understand the revolution the party wants to bring in.” Over the petition filed against the National Assembly speaker’s ruling, the PTI chief said, “If any decision of the Supreme Court is avoided or bypassed, let me assure you that I will bring the country’s biggest march to Islamabad.”
To another question, he admitted that there was some mismanagement in the recent PTI rally at Liaqat Bagh because the party was not expecting such a huge gathering. He said notice of the mismanagement had been taken.
Courtesy www.dailytimes.com.pk