(MENAFN- Khaleej Times) Imran said there was no short-cut in life and that the military was not behind his politics just as it was not behind his success as a cricketer.
Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan has predicted that general elections would be held next year before Eid.
Addressing a big crowd at D-Chowk sit-in on Saturday night Imran said: “We will form government after the elections to be held before the next Eid.”
Imran said there was no short-cut in life and that the military was not behind his politics just as it was not behind his success as a cricketer.
He said several political leaders including Nawaz Sharif Asif Zardari Maulana Fazlur Rehman and Asfandyar Wali Khan were beneficiaries and products of family politics in Pakistan. “Bacha Khan was a great leader and so was Fazl’s father Mufti Mahmood. But what have Asfandyar and Fazl done to earn a place in politics” he asked.
The Sharif family was unknown in politics until military dictator Gen. Ziaul Haq and his ISI chief in 1980s picked Nawaz Sharif to become Punjab chief minister he said.
About Zardari and son Bilawal Imran said a dubious letter of former slain premier Benazir Bhutto was produced after her assassination nominating Zardari as chairman of the Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) who in turn installed Bilawal as chairman and himself as co-chairman. “Do you think anyone can become a leader on the basis of the ‘will’ of a deceased leader” he asked. the audience.
“Yet all these leaders talk about upholding democracy in the country” Imran observed.
Cleric Tahirul Qadri also reacted sharply to Zardari’s claim that all political parties except the PPP were nurtured by the security establishment and that children of Imran and Qadri are studying abroad.
“I know the politics of the PPP. His (Zardari) party is alive because of the NRO it had reached with former military ruler Gen. Pervez Musharraf” Qadri said. He further pointed out that everybody knows where Zardari himself and his children are living.
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