Daily Times

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan on Sunday rejected the ‘sacrifice’ of Senator Pervaiz Rasheed and said the former information minister could not speak without a signal from his masters.

“We want absolute accountability and do not want the sacrifice of a darbari… Pervaiz Rasheed could not dare to move even a single inch without consent of his masters. He just obeyed,” he said while talking to reporters at his Bani Gala residence.

“We want the member of the ‘royal’ family – responsible for the whole drama – to be tried.” To another question, he said it was a case of national security breach, and the one pulling the strings should be put on trial.

Responding to Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan’s press conference, he said the interior minister should listen to his conscience and stop serving the “most corrupt” person.

He termed Nisar’s rationale of blocking the motorway connecting Islamabad to Khyber Pakhtunkhwa “inconsistent”. The interior minister had said that there was information about armed men entering the federal capital.

Imran asked Chaudhry Nisar as to why other routes leading to Islamabad were also blocked. “We are bringing our families here. Do you think we are calling in armed men to kill our families?” Imran questioned.

To a query, he said that Ali Amin Gandapur usually carried licensed weapons because he had been facing life threats since the killing of KP law minister Israrullah Gandapur.

The PTI chairman said someone “fed” the news story to, what he called, “protect the narrative of Indo-Israel elements lobbying against Pakistan”. He said that whoever responsible for the leak should be exposed.

The PTI chief said that his party’s scheduled protest in Islamabad would turn into celebratory event if Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif resigned over Panama leaks. He asked all his party workers and activists across the country to reach Bani Gala by today (Monday). “There is a lot of space here.”

He said the government was responsible for the casualties – the army officer and the infant. “It is because of their shelling and blockage,” he added. He said he would go to the Supreme Court on Tuesday. “We were supposed to lock the city down, but the government has done that for us.”