Sat 26 November 2022:
PTI Chairman Imran Khan has announced that his party has decided not to remain part of the current political system and will instead resign from all the assemblies.
He was addressing his first public rally, in the garrison town of Rawalpindi, since surviving an “assassination” attempt earlier this month. However he did not give a date when the members might resign, adding that the announcement is likely soon.
Khan has announced that his party has decided not to remain part of the current political system and will instead resign from all the assemblies.
“We will not be part of this system. We have decided to quit all the assemblies and get out of this corrupt system.”
It is pertinent to mention here that Imran’s PTI is in power in Punjab, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Azad Kashmir and Gilgit-Baltistan.
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Imran said the PTI had decided not to go to Islamabad to avert any destruction or chaos. He added that he would soon be meeting his chief ministers and the parliamentary party about the matter and would soon make the announcement about when the party would leave the assemblies.
PTI currently holds power in Punjab, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan-occupied Kashmir and Gilgit-Baltistan.
Khan also said that the country’s history will attest that he kept on fighting till the last ball for Pakistan.
“I also want to say that those who saw a massive rise in their assets and trampled the nation’s rights … history is also looking towards him and writing down what he did with the country.”
Imran has been pressing the Sharif government for early general elections, ever since he was ousted as prime minister in April this year.
In October, he embarked on a “long march” from Lahore to Islamabad with the demand. The march was temporarily halted after the “attempt” on Khan on November 3. On Saturday he said the PTI had decided not to proceed to Islamabad to avoid triggering a chaos.
Imran came out all guns blazing at the “establishment” once again during the Rawalpindi rally.
The former Pakistan prime minister alleged that the “three criminals” who were behind the failed attempt on him are waiting to target him again.
The 70-year-old leader has repeatedly alleged that Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, interior minister Rana Sanaullah and ISI Counter Intelligence Wing head Maj-Gen Faisal Naseer were behind the attack on him.
He also said that as prime minister, he did not receive full cooperation from certain quarters not directly under his control, like the National Accountability Bureau. “they received orders from behind from somewhere else,” Khan said, in a veiled reference to the military establishment.
This, he alleged, prevented him from bringing the powerful and corrupt to justice during his three-and-a-half years at the helm.
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