Who is conspiring against govt – judiciary or army? Imran asks PML-N

Chairman PTI says PM, his family were threatening the JIT and hurling abuse at it after failing to buy its loyalties

Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan on Thursday urged the ruling PML-N to clarify its claims about ‘conspiracies’ being hatched against the government.

A few days ago Railways Minister Khawaja Saad Rafique had asserted that no one would gain anything if the democratic setup was packed up, triggering all kinds of conspiracy theories in the midst of the political upheaval caused by the Panamagate case.

“Who is behind these conspiracies -- the Supreme Court or the army?” Khan asked the government while talking to the media at his Bani Gala residence.

“Hurling threats at the JIT by the PML-N leaders is akin to attacking the Supreme Court,” the PTI chairman said, adding, “The entire nation will react if the judiciary is attacked again.”

The PTI chief alleged that the Sharif family was burning the exchequer’s money by bribing the judiciary, media and other officials to hide its corruption, “and claiming at the same time that it is protecting democracy”.

“They've bought newspapers. They are hiding their loot and claiming that they are saving democracy,” he stated.

Khan said those who claim to be saving democracy were actually destroying national institutions to protect their ill-gotten wealth.

“They should show a simple, one-page paper that shows who owns the [London] flats and how the money was transferred abroad,” Khan said, adding, “Sharifs have failed to do so because there is no truth in whatever they are saying -- including evidence about the money trail.”



“You [the PML-N] are destroying institutions on the pretext of saving democracy.”

“Is this what saving democracy looks like?” he asked.

He alleged that the ruling party had attempted to buy the JIT and said they started attacking them when their offer was refused.

“They presented an unknown Qatari letter before the Supreme Court and nothing from the documents they had waved in the National Assembly,” the PTI chairman added.

“If the Qatari prince can come to Pakistan to purchase Port Qasim and hunt Houbara bustard, why can he not come to the country to appear before the JIT?”

“If, in case, he was unable to appear before the JIT, then he can at least send the details of banking transactions,” Khan said.

He said the entire nation was standing with the Supreme Court. “The nation is waiting for my call [to defend it],” he claimed.

Referring to the reference against him in the Election Commission of Pakistan, Khan said the foreign funding case was ‘politically motivated’.