Daily Times

TAUNSA SHARIF: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf Chairman Imran Khan on Saturday warned his political rivals – Sharifs and Zardari – that he would send them to jail when his party comes into power.

Addressing a political gathering in Taunsa Sharif, Imran lamented how the rich and the powerful in Pakistan were able to evade arrest while the poor were punished for petty crimes. “For stealing thousands or a few hundreds of rupees, you are sent to jail,” he told his supporters at the rally. “The affluent mint money in billions from corruption and are able to stash them abroad,” he said, promising to recover all looted wealth stashed in foreign banks by the corrupt mafia. “We will catch Zardari, Nawaz, Shehbaz and Ishaq Dar … and we will bring back all wealth stolen by them,” Imran said, and urged the people to rise above their fears and hold the corrupt elite to account.

Speaking about Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi, he remarked that Abbasi still says that Nawaz is his leader. “How do you accept a criminal of the nation as your PM? This proves only two things: either your internal conflicts have ended or you are just as corrupt as him,” he said.

Published in Daily Times, November 12^th 2017.