PML-N's Latif decries PTI's 'western agenda'

Latif says the west wants to come after Iran for which it wants Pakistan to look the other way.

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LAHORE:

PML-N leader Javed Latif has said Pakistan may consider going beyond words for the oppressed Muslim nations, if the west does not stop demanding the release of former prime minister and PTI founder Imran Khan.

Addressing a press conference on Friday, he claimed that the demand by some western diplomats and lawmakers to free the incarcerated PTI leader is a part of a bigger plot to not only sabotage Pakistan-China relations and Pakistan's nuclear programme but also to allow invasion of Pakistan's neighbor Iran.

Latif, who voiced his opposition to the ongoing negotiation with the PTI said if what had happened on May 9, 2023 in Pakistan after the arrest of Imran Khan had happened elsewhere, the perpetrators and abettors would have been put before a firing squad.

Terming the ongoing parleys as pointless, he said the PTI was only pushing a one-point agenda which was to free Imran khan.

"Our government and institutions should divulge to the nation what pressure they are facing from foreign powers to set Imran Khan free. Imran serves western agenda. He traded Kashmir, an issue that the west was grappling with for decades," he alleged.

Latif went on to claim that after devastating Syria, Iraq, Kashmir and Palestine, the west wants to come after Iran for which it wants Pakistan to look the other way.

Doubling down on the allegations against Imran Khan and how he would serve the western agenda, he said the west wants to sabotage the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) as well as an access to our nuclear power.

"If the loan that we are getting is a charity to make us compromise on our national pride and dignity, then we will prefer to die with honor."

He throughout his press conference highlighted that he too has gripes with the establishment, but claimed that it was our internal matter.

He claimed that former ISI chief Faiz Hameed was not arrested for corruption in a housing society but because of his being part of a conspiracy to incite revolt in Pakistan.