Daily Times

LAHORE: Punjab Law Minister Rana Sanaullah Khan, terming Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf’s Raiwind march a flop show, said the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz government would not be bothered by Imran Khan’s threat to close Islamabad.

Speaking to journalists at DGPR office, he said according to reports of various TV channels and other sources, some 10,000 to 12,000 from Lahore and 17,000 to 18,000 people from all over Pakistan participated in the PTI rally. In fact, he added, people of Lahore had once again rejected Imran’s politics of polarisation. He said that the cricketer-turned-politician was busy staging a drama while Pakistan’s enemy was lurking to strike at the border and the innocent Kashmiri people were being martyred by India. “Imran should apologise to the nation for wasting its time and wait for the 2018 general elections,” he opined.

The minister said that the PTI leader had claimed to gather 500,000 people in his Raiwind rally but he miserably failed and could not draw even 200,000 people to his march. Now, he added, Imran should fulfill his promise not to take out rallies.

Sanaullah said both Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Imran Khan had common agenda to close Islamabad and halt the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC). He said despite PTI leader’s tactics, the government was succeeding in the war against terrorism. “Despite your negative actions, the CPEC was progressing,” he mentioned. He said that world knew that owing to efforts of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, Pakistan had become nuclear power and now India could not dare to attack it. “We have best defence and best army in the world,” he added. The minister said that Awami Muslim League (AML) leader Sheikh Rashid Ahmed was troublesome and wanting blood of the people all the time. He said that now the nation would stop such people and bring them accountable for their anti-Pakistan acts.