Hitting out at former Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif after being stripped of the ‘bat’ symbol, former Prime Minister Imran Khan accused the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) supremo of playing with “umpires of choice” who gave a “no ball”, the news channel reported.
During an informal interaction with journalists in Adiala Jail, Khan said he was imprisoned under the “London Plan”, adding that attempts were made to eliminate his party under the “covert agreement”.
Notably, the PTI founder has been repeatedly claiming that an “agreement” was signed in London that outlined that he would be put behind bars to crush his party and a clean chit would be given to Pakistan Muslim Leaque-Nawaz (PML-N) supremo Nawaz Sharif, the news channel reported.
“The day before yesterday, an umpire gave a no-ball,” he said.
Talking about the implementation of the alleged plot, the incarcerated former premier said that “all the cases against Sharif have been ended.”
“PML-N supremo, his daughter Maryam Nawaz, and Pakistan Peoples’ Party co-chairman Asif Ali Zardari had obtained bulletproof vehicles from the ToshaKhana”, Khan said, adding that “nobody was ready to hold them accountable for it”.
The PTI founder further predicted that something “very bad is going to happen to them.” He further demanded an open trial of the cipher case to be conducted to make people know the facts. Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf (PTI) was stripped of its iconic electoral symbol ‘bat’, after marathon hearings over the weekend.
The Pakistani Supreme Court had on Saturday upheld the Election Commission of Pakistan’s decision to revoke the party’s electoral symbol and reject its internal election just a few days before polls, Dawn reported.
Meanwhile PML-N leader Maryam Nawaz began her election campaign backing the Supreme Court’s
Maryam Nawaz criticises Imran Khan for ‘bat’ symbol rejection
Islamabad: In a veiled attack at Imran Khan and his party after it was snubbed of its iconic ‘bat’ symbol, Pakistan Muslim-League Nawaz (PML-N) Chief Organiser Maryam Nawaz said that a “terrorist party” could not be allotted an electoral symbol, the newspaper reported.
In an apparent reference to the PTI, PML-N Chief Organiser Maryam Nawaz on Monday said a “terrorist party” could not be allotted an electoral symbol as her party kicked off its poll campaign in Okara.
Addressing party supporters in Okara on Monday, Maryam — without mentioning the PTI — said, “Sher [lion] can be allotted sher, but a terrorist party cannot be allotted an election symbol like other political parties.”
“You say your electoral symbol was ‘bat’, no, it was the danda [baton] that you had in your hand. The danda that you used against the state of Pakistan and the public,” Maryam claimed.
Her remarks came just days after the PTI was stripped of its iconic electoral symbol ‘bat’. After marathon hearings over the weekend.
The Pakistani Supreme Court on Saturday upheld the Election Commission of Pakistan’s decision to revoke the party’s electoral symbol and reject its internal election just a few days before polls.
“Today, what is happening to the PTI is a result of their own actions,” Maryam said.
“There was a danda, not a bat, in your hands and the entire nation saw how you attacked military installations now say, what is your electoral symbol? It should have been the watch that you stole or the petrol bomb that you used against the police,” Dawn quoted her as saying.
The PML-N leader asserted that the nation would not allow a political party to “manipulate” its internal elections and “escape without any consequences”.
Referring to Imran Khan, Maryam said, “It is not his fault, he was used to being a ‘ladla’ [blue-eyed],”
