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Thursday, November 24, 2011
PML-N wants status quo, claims Imran Khan* PTI chief says Zardari behind memogate scandal
* Advises Nawaz Sharif to quit politics
Staff Report
LAHORE: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan said on Wednesday that Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) was part of the status quo and that its leadership did not want any change in the system.
The PTI chief stated this while addressing a press conference during which PPP leader Asghar Ali Gujjar, ANP leader Neelam Shah and many nazimeen belonging to Punjab joined the PTI.
He claimed that more and more people were joining the PTI and he welcomed them and said that there would be more good news in the coming days. He stated that the PML-N was afraid of PTI’s rising popularity and was using cheap tactics to harass its workers.
Commenting on Munter’s statement, the PTI chairman said that he was against US policies and that he never supported them. He said that the US officials were giving statements in his favour because they smelled a change in the political scenario of Pakistan.
Earlier, while talking to the media at the Lahore airport on his return from London, he said that President Asif Ali Zardari was solely responsible for the memo scandal and that it should be investigated thoroughly. “If it is true then it is treason against the state,” he added.
The PTI chairman said that a SC commission should probe into the scandal.
He said that Nawaz Sharif was a compulsive liar and was continuously lying about the details of his assets. He said that Nawaz Sharif had made billions during the last three years and that the number of his factories had increased from 1 to 27. The Sharif brothers were a by-product of the establishment, he alleged.
He said that Nawaz Sharif had obtained Rs 3.5 million from the ISI and that the case was pending in the court. He stated that the Supreme Court should hear this case so that people could come to know who had received how much money. He also advised Nawaz Sharif to quit politics now.
He averred that the PTI Karachi public meeting on December 25 would show the difference between a state-sponsored meeting and a public meeting. To a question, he asserted that he had nothing to hide and, commenting on his alleged links with the army, added that he had made it clear one and a half year ago that he had a meeting with DG ISI Gen Shuja Pasha on the war against terrorism and that after that meeting, he had never met him.
Responding to another question, he said that US ambassador had met him officially about six months ago and that there was nothing special about this meeting, adding that the Sharif brothers should be asked why Holbrooke repeatedly met them at Raiwind. To a query, he observed that army action was no solution to terrorism and that dialogue was the best option to solve the issue. Taking the Afghan war as an example, he said that the US had been fighting against terrorism in Afghanistan for the last 10 years, but had achieved nothing.
Courtesy www.dailytimes.com.pk