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Imran asks Sharif to go home for `lying` to nation

By Tariq Naqash 2016-05-19
MUZAFFARABAD: Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) chief Imran Khan announced a plan on Wednesday for economic uplift of Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK), besides assuring the people across the Line of Control that he would raise a forceful voice for their rights at all international forums.

Speaking at a big public rally in Muzaffarabad, his second in AJK since February, he also lashed out at Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and asked him to go home for lying to the nation on his assets.

`You have made a false statement in the parliament about your assets and have thus lost right to lead the country... Mian Sahib you will not be spared; you will have to go back to the pavilion,` he said.

The PTI chief said that nations were driven by ideologies and Pakistan`s ideology was being ruined.

`I don`t have any doubt that this country has a great future, but we need to do our best to achieve that goal. I will lead you to make Pakistanthe way it was dreamt of by Allama Iqbal and Quaid-i-Azam,` he said.

He said that Mr Sharif vainly believed that announcement of roads and airports would rescue him from corruption charges revealed by the Panama Papers.

He recalled that Maryam Nawaz had denied in a 2012 TV show that they owned any assets abroad, `but little did she l
He said the PTI would continue its fight against corruption in parliament, streets, public rallies, courts and the Election Commission.

Regarding India-held Kashmir, he said India had let loose its troops on Kashmiris and these troops were committing serious human rights violations, but there was no one to raise voice against it.

`I will wage a war for your rightsthat has never been waged by anyone in Pakistan... As `prime minister` of Pakistan, I will also talk to India unlike Nawaz Sharif who cannot properly raise this issue with India because of his business interests there,` he said.

Of AJK, he said the PTI government under Barrister Sultan Mahmood would introduce ruthless accountability and he would personally ensure its implementation.

All AJK institutions, particularly police, would be revamped and reformed to ensure supremacy of law and protection of lives and honour of people.

The PTI chief also announced that his party would hold a `record breaking` public rally in Faisalabad on Friday and warned eve-teasers to stay away from women or else they would be given severe thrashing by PTPs `tiger force` raised for protection of women.

Earlier PTI secretary general Jehangir Tareen, PTI AJK chapter president Barrister Sultan Mahmood, Khawaja Farooq Ahmed, Sardar Tabarak Ali and others also spoke.