Daily Times

PTI Chairman Imran Khan Thursday warned his opponents that he will reveal the names of all those allegedly involved in intimidating him and his supporters.

“I am being pushed against the wall through bogus FIRs of terrorism and others journalists who speak in our favour are being subjected to victimization. The more you suppress my party, the more we will rise,” he said while addressing a rally in Sargodha.

Imran said his opponents had already “lost the match” against him and whatever they do next to defeat will only harm the country’s interests.

“Don’t think about your petty vested interest… think about the country… the people are not ready to see their future in leaders like Zardari and Nawaz.”

He said, “I have been tolerating this for the last months but don’t push me to the point where I expose all faces who created all this mess for their vested interests.”

“The more you try to subdue me, the more I will fight harder,” he added.

“I have been tolerating this for the last months but don’t push me to the point where I expose all faces who created all this mess for their vested interests,” he added. “The more you try to subdue me, the more I will fight harder.”

Speaking about rising inflation and electricity prices, Imran said the country was moving in the right direction and all economic indicators were positive when his government was toppled through a “foreign conspiracy”.

“Now, I want to ask who is responsible for imposing the thieves on the country and creating this mess.” “Economy is sinking, remittances are declining… now the only way to come out of this quagmire is to hold free and fair elections,” he added.

The PTI chief said the coalition government led by the PML-N suffered a shock defeat in Punjab by-elections despite all “rigging attempts”. After by-polls results, they got scared that if early elections are held I will secure two-third majority, he said.

“So they started a conspiracy to disqualify me and the decision was taken behind a closed door to ‘completely eliminate’ me… that’s why I have recorded a video in which I had named four persons who will not be spared by the nation if anything happens to me.”

Imran said he was booked for terrorism charges for merely saying vowing legal action against those were involved in the torture on Shahbaz Gill.

He also asked the ruling PML-N not to compare him with its supremo Nawaz Sharif, saying he earned money through hard work in abroad.

“Whereas they [Sharif] bought London apartment from plundered wealth… robbery only affects individuals whereas corruption destroys societies.”

Hitting out at former president and PPP leader Asif Zardari Imran said, “He [Zardari] has a disease that his legs start shivering when he sees money and he is ready to lay down his life for wealth.”

At the start of his address, Imran said he will make all-out efforts to help the flood victims across the country and for this purpose he said a command and control centre will be established to monitor the relief operations.

Imran said four people conspired in a closed room to disqualify him.

“Chief Election Commissioner, you have understood for the first time what foreign funding is. We have been sent a lot of money by overseas Pakistanis,” he added.

Imran Khan further said that due to the slavery of the IMF, Pakistanis have to spread their hands, adding that by mobilizing overseas Pakistanis country can be saved from further debts.

“I have recorded a tape in which I have revealed the names of four people who conspired against me and planned to disqualify me. If something happens to me, that tape will be exposed to the public, and then the public will not spare those four people. The Election Commissioner was asked to disqualify me in the funding case,” Imran Khan claimed.

The former PM challenged and said that the Tosha Khana case should be heard openly, adding that the cases of Nawaz Sharif, Zardari, Yousaf Raza Gilani should also be heard. Things would become crystal clear, Imran added. Imran evaded a question about his wife Bushra Bibi accepting diamonds as a gift from property tycoon Malik Riaz, saying that “diamonds are very cheap. Talk about something expensive.”

The PTI chairman briefly spoke to reporters after appearing before an Islamabad anti-terrorism court, which granted him interim bail in a case that was lodged after he hurled threats at Judge Zeba Chauhdry and Islamabad police officials.

In his interaction, Imran Khan also said that he was becoming more dangerous by the day. The PTI chief was escorted by Asad Umar, Omar Ayub, and other PTI leaders as he left the court.