Nawaz has clean-bowled Imran: Asfandyar
Says the PTI chief using Pakhtuns to win Punjab and rule Islamabad
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CHARSADDA:
Using the cricketing terms to comment on the PTI’s announcement to postpone its Nov 2 protest in Islamabad, the ANP chief Asfandyar Wali has said the PTI chief Imran Khan has been dismissed on a no-ball.
“But today his [Imran Khan’s] U-turn shows that the Prime Minister [Nawaz Sharif] has clean-bowled Imran on a no-ball,” Asfandyar said on Tuesday while addressing a public gathering in Sardheri area of the Khyber Pakhtunkwa’s (K-P) Charsadda district.
Imran Khan backs down from threat to shut down capital
Asfandyar said after accepting petitions seeking probe into Panamagate scandal, the Supreme Court had issued notices to both Imran Khan and Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif. “But instead of accepting the SC’s verdict, Imran at that time announced Islamabad lockdown,” he added.
“If Imran Khan believed in the Supreme Court then why did he make a call for lockdown” he said, adding that lockdown and protest could not solve the issue but created hurdle in the country’s progress.
He said if the PTI chief announced protest to safeguard Pakhtun people’s rights in the multi-billion dollar CPEC, then he would fight under his leadership.
“But he [Imran] is fighting to win Punjab by using Pakhtuns,” he said, adding: “If he is sincere with the K-P then he should give call for a dharna for Pukhtuns’ rights in the CPEC.”
He said the ANP will never accept governor’s rule in K-P and will lead a protest in case of the K-P Assembly’s dissolution. He said PM Nawaz’s attitude was also not democratic in his treatment of protesters, adding that blockade of roads was unconstitutional.
Dozens detained after violent clashes
He claimed that the PM was telling lies when he said the rights of Pakhtuns were ensured in the CPEC project. “If Nawaz Sharif is sincere then he must publish the CPEC maps and the details of its projects in the K-P and Balochistan,” he said, adding that the government changed the name of Gawadar-Kashghar route to CPEC in order to divert its entire project to Punjab.
Published in The Express Tribune, November 2nd, 2016.
Using the cricketing terms to comment on the PTI’s announcement to postpone its Nov 2 protest in Islamabad, the ANP chief Asfandyar Wali has said the PTI chief Imran Khan has been dismissed on a no-ball.
“But today his [Imran Khan’s] U-turn shows that the Prime Minister [Nawaz Sharif] has clean-bowled Imran on a no-ball,” Asfandyar said on Tuesday while addressing a public gathering in Sardheri area of the Khyber Pakhtunkwa’s (K-P) Charsadda district.
Imran Khan backs down from threat to shut down capital
Asfandyar said after accepting petitions seeking probe into Panamagate scandal, the Supreme Court had issued notices to both Imran Khan and Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif. “But instead of accepting the SC’s verdict, Imran at that time announced Islamabad lockdown,” he added.
“If Imran Khan believed in the Supreme Court then why did he make a call for lockdown” he said, adding that lockdown and protest could not solve the issue but created hurdle in the country’s progress.
He said if the PTI chief announced protest to safeguard Pakhtun people’s rights in the multi-billion dollar CPEC, then he would fight under his leadership.
“But he [Imran] is fighting to win Punjab by using Pakhtuns,” he said, adding: “If he is sincere with the K-P then he should give call for a dharna for Pukhtuns’ rights in the CPEC.”
He said the ANP will never accept governor’s rule in K-P and will lead a protest in case of the K-P Assembly’s dissolution. He said PM Nawaz’s attitude was also not democratic in his treatment of protesters, adding that blockade of roads was unconstitutional.
Dozens detained after violent clashes
He claimed that the PM was telling lies when he said the rights of Pakhtuns were ensured in the CPEC project. “If Nawaz Sharif is sincere then he must publish the CPEC maps and the details of its projects in the K-P and Balochistan,” he said, adding that the government changed the name of Gawadar-Kashghar route to CPEC in order to divert its entire project to Punjab.
Published in The Express Tribune, November 2nd, 2016.