Image Source : AP Former Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan
Pakistan’s Interior Minister Rana Sanaullah warned that the ruling get together would go to any extent to guard its existence and identified that the politics of the nation has reached a stage the place ‘both Imran Khan or us’ might be ‘eradicated’ from the political area. Terming the ex-prime minister and Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf chief an ‘enemy’ of his get together, the senior chief of the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) mentioned that Khan might be ‘handled like that’.
Sanaullah, who may be very near former premier and London-based PML-N supremo Nawaz Sharif, mentioned when the ruling get together feels that its existence is underneath risk, it’ll go to any extent towards its chief political rival. “Either he might be eradicated from the political area or us. He has now taken the nation’s politics to a degree the place solely one of many two can stay – PTI or PML-N,” he said on Saturday. “PML-N’s complete existence is in jeopardy and we’ll go to any extent towards him. Khan has turned politics into enmity. Khan is now our enemy and he might be handled like that,” Sanaullah, 68, asserted.
Khan, after surviving an assault on him throughout a rally in Wazirabad in Punjab province in November final yr, had named Sanaullah behind the assassination try on him. Khan, 70, additionally blamed Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and a senior ISI officer for his or her function within the assassination bid. Khan “even blamed me, Prime Minister Shehbaz and an army officer for plotting to kill him,” Sanaullah mentioned, apprehending that the PTI chief’s narrative was creating dangerous blood amongst followers of each events and both he or they may very well be killed (by followers of one another’s get together), the Dawn newspaper reported.
Asked if such remarks might lead to anarchy in Pakistan, the minister mentioned: “Anarchy already prevails in Pakistan.” The minister mentioned the variations between Khan and former military chief Gen (retd.) Qamar Javed Bajwa had developed on the difficulty of “eliminating the then opposition” by hook or criminal. He mentioned Khan has been attempting for the previous 11 months to “set fire to the country” however the coalition authorities all the time exercised restraint to save lots of the scenario from getting worse. Reacting strongly to Sanaullah’s assertion, PTI chief and former federal data minister Fawad Chaudhry mentioned: “This is a direct life threat to Khan from the PML-N coalition government.”
“Is Sanaullah running a gang or government? The Supreme Court had rightly declared Sharifs-led PMLN a Sicilian mafia and his statement is evidence of it,” he said. The PTI has also urged the apex court to take notice of the statement, terming it an open threat to Khan’s life. “If anyone has any doubts about Sanaullah’s murderous intent towards Khan. This is a direct threat given by the cabal of crooks’ interior minister. The judiciary should take note,” PTI senior chief and former minister Shireen Mazari mentioned in a tweet. The PTI mentioned it has by no means witnessed previously {that a} ruling get together overtly declared eliminating a well-liked chief of Pakistan. Khan was ousted from energy in April final yr after shedding a no-confidence vote, turning into the primary Pakistani prime minister to be voted out by the National Assembly.
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