Sana lampoons Imran for ‘paradoxical narrative'

The ruling Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz ministers have fired a broadside at Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf Chairman Imran Khan, saying that “traitorous patriots and agents working against Pakistan” should not be allowed to hold a rally at "a revered place like Minar-e-Pakistan" and be arrested.

Interior Minister Rana Sanaullah said in his statement that Imran should “first get real freedom from the American lobby firms … from ‘I am not afraid of America’ to ‘my life is in danger’ and from the lie that ‘America did not conspire’ new lies will emerge”.

He said that Imran wanted real freedom from the Constitution, law and truth. “Imran wants real freedom from Toshakhana, prohibited funding, and Tyrian White cases. Imran wants real freedom to make every institution and its head his slave,” the minister said, adding that the whole nation had already seen the scenes of his true freedom at D-Chowk.

The interior minister said that he looted the country and sought real freedom. “Visibly, Imran has a fight with America, but from within, they are brothers.”

Sanaullah said, “This traitorous person is using a revered place like Minar-e-Pakistan for his lies. Imran is the top liar of Pakistan and an agent working against Pakistan who should be arrested at Minar-e-Pakistan where the gathering should not have been allowed in the first place.”

He said, “The condition of the people would have improved if this person who spread sedition in Pakistan through foreign funding did not get a free pass.”

Separately, Minister for Information Marriyum Aurangzeb took a dig at the prime minister, saying Imran should tell the participants of the rally at Minar-e-Pakistan about his “forbidden foreign funding, Toshakhana gifts theft, and Tyrian White”.

Using her Twitter handle, the minister said Imran should tell the nation about his four years of misrule which plunged the country into unprecedented inflation, unemployment, and destruction.

The minister said that a person who looted the country and pushed it into the mire of destruction and division, cannot salvage it as “he is only a fraud and a terrorist”.

She said, “The real freedom narrative which started from the [taunts] of neutral animals, the indefinite extension offer to the then Army Chief General (retd) Bajwa came all the way to implicate Shehbaz Sharif and Mohsin Naqvi’s role in his [Imran’s] ouster, and finally concluded at seeking pardons from the United States.”

She said the narrative of real freedom “has been buried and its funeral is being held tonight”.

The time has come for the nation to get real freedom from the “instigator terrorist”, she maintained.