The prime minister said the PTI government had taken a case against him with the UK NCA which gave him a clean chit after investigation, while on the contrary, Imran Niazi had misused the hospital’s donation money for his political purposes.
Summoning up his experience with the PTI leader, he said he had never come across such a “liar, corrupt and ungrateful person” in his life.
The prime minister said billions of rupees were embezzled in the Peshawar Metro bus project and similar was the fate with the billion trees tsunami.
He said he could not sleep out of the fear that the country could be defaulted due to the economic straits in which the PTI government had left it.
Further, they were tied with the tough conditions of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), he said, adding on the sidelines of United Nations General Assembly session in New York, he held a meeting with the IMF managing director about the flood and economic situation of Pakistan.
To a question, the prime minister straightaway rubbished the PTI’s leadership allegations of the imported government and said his cordial meeting with Russian President Putin was suffice to deflate such hollow claims. The Russian president had asked for export of wheat and oil to Pakistan, he added.
Moreover, the Supreme Court and the National Security Committee had not found any clue of any connivance of the politicians with the foreign governments to dislodge the PTI’s government, he said, adding through a constitutional and democratic manner, the previous government was shown the door through use of vote of no-confidence motion.
Despite use of all the available machinery, the PTI leadership, till date, could never prove a single case against the political leadership of their opponents, he said, referring to acquittal of Ahsan Iqbal from a NAB case.
The prime minister said they would respect the public mandate in the general elections but advised the people to consider the fact that a person (Imran Khan) was telling lies on daily basis.
The closed envelop of 190 million UK pounds case was approved in the PTI’s cabinet without opening it, he added.
The prime minister said the PTI leadership was spewing venom and expressed his fear at the widening gap of polarization in the society.
In the tug of political war, this person (IK) could take the country to a destructive path, he said and alluded to the recent ugly incident against Marriyum Aurangzeb in the United Kingdom. “What will become of the country, that is the real issue,” he stressed.
To another question, the prime minister said he was thrice elected as Khadim-e-Aala (chief minister of Punjab), with the support of Nawaz Sharif and he bore all the expenses of his official foreign visits from his personal sources during the last 20-25 years.
Being a prime minister, it was not a new thing, he said, if Allah Almighty had blessed him with such a status, he would never spend the public money.
“If Allah has bestowed me with such a high status why would I spend the public money,” the prime minister elaborated while responding to a question about his current expenditures abroad.
Responding to another question, he said the PTI’s government did not provide fertilizer to the farmers and they had to import wheat to cover its shortfall whereas the coalition government had waived off fuel adjustment prices to the power consumers using 300 units.