Express News screengrab of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) chief Imran Khan.
Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) chief Imran Khan said his party has no plans of returning to Parliament until a judicial commission is formed to probe rigging allegations.
"Riaz Fatyana has confirmed that additional ballot papers were printed," Imran said, welcoming Fatyana as a new member of PTI. Fatyana belonged to the Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid.
"Justice Ramday and former chief justice of Pakistan Chaudhry Iftikhar have a big hand to play in the success of the Pakistan Muslim League Nawaz in the elections," he said.
Earlier, the PTI chief had said that forms 14 and 15 were missing from ballot bags in the constituency. However, Imran said he had heard of reports of the forms now being found.
"Where were they found? They should have been found in the ballot bags. This is yet another violation of the election commission." he said.
Imran condemns Charlie Hebdo
The PTI chief condemned the printing of the cartoon of Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) in French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo.
"When people say something against the holocaust, it's not freedom of speech. But when they say something against Muslims, then it's counted as freedom of speech," a visibly agitated Imran said.
Progress in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa
Imran, in response to a question regarding progress in K-P, said progress in the province is not seen by others because the government does not advertise it.
"The reason achievements in K-P are not seen is because we don't spend our money on advertisements," he added.
"I would like to assure you that the people in K-P have seen a definite difference in development in the province," Imran said.
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@Kala_bacha: Still I will not vote for AAZ or NS...at least
firstly you brother have denied the basics of democracy the sanctity of vote, which is too relative term in basic rights the issue which is playing havoc with the peoples since it emergence on the globe, this election dispute have been resulted in fissure in Pakistan ultimate terminating into two the Pakistan and its counterpart east Pakistan. when u brother criticize the the educated youth and tagged them as dimwit terms, you actually attacking drastically their right to join any ideology or any party, i respect ur association but you should also follow thereof, i anticipate you be living in any west or any developed country could u call a election as fair if 34000 votes found without duly signed and stamped definitely no person would be eager to accept as legitimate in truly democratic country, have any candidate in any country the power to deliver a victory speech even when more than 60% results are in the hands of presiding officers no, no this misconduct could never happen in any country pursued in the name of democracy.
BUT I will not return to congress for terrorism issues threatening our country while congress is trying to hurt "Our Brothers"!!!!!! Yeah, that sounds about right!
IK Sb., never mind returning to Assemblies, for now, please STOP collecting the remuneration for being a member of NA, and ask your party members to do the same. As well, if you and your high moral party members (esp likes of Asad Umar) have an ounce of self-respect, please return the money you have continued to SHAMELESSLY receive as NA members ever since you tendered your resignations. How can you play ignorant on material issues like this, and still advertise yourself as a so-called champion of Tabdeeli???
“The reason achievements in K-P are not seen is because we don’t spend our money on advertisements,” Khan saab, I am from KPK And want to tell the world that you are telling totally wrong to the world. Dear Pakistanis no development can be seen on the ground in KPK. if it was then IK would surely advertise it as he loves to advertise everything which can boast and help his dream to become PM of Pakistan.
@raider:
Well brother, I would have to admit one thing though. IK's press meet today was indeed a breath of fresh air as he took on the government and criticized it for the fuel crisis. As long as he keeps pushing on issues which directly relates to public service, he would build on genuine political support instead of his core followers who are basically just dimwit fan boys and cultist sheep herd. He needs to realize that he does not have many takers out there on the rigging issue as it is solely based on fantasy, innuendos and hearsay.
Now he needs to swallow the bitter of taking back the resignations and coming back to the parliament. It was upon the insistence of conspirators and carpetbaggers like Tareen and Sheeda Talli that IK was conned into resigning and now the same Tareen seeing his original plans being flushed down the toilet, now coercing IK to return to the parliament just so that Tareen can get a Senate ticket.
IK should advertise, Pakistanis want to know achievements of PTI in KPK.
Yes u will have to return since the judicial commission have been already formed .
It is perfectly okay to condemn Charlie hebdo, but at the same time failing to openly condemn the Paris massacre in the name of Islam, is not manly. It sends the wrong signal from that Politician.
The way for Muslims to react to the charlie hebdo insults is to recite Darood Shareef constanly in the hearts.
Murdering them is not only against the teachings of Islam but the results is that more insults are now being poured on the Rahtmatan lil Alameen.
@Adnan Siddiqi: no cogent articulation could be found in your arguments, in province with state compromised writ, sometime security forces enduring setback, a provincial govt with weak police institution how could prevent happening all this malfunctioning and dysfunctioning , you should also throw garbage on others provinces which are experienced i don’t know either in corruption or anything else are doing business since long and again parables of corruption are rampant with zero result
I wish he added, we will return the all salaries, TA and DA, phone allowances, amount of money spend on protocols etc etc then I will count him true leaders. Otherwise same old same old!
“The reason achievements in K-P are not seen is because we don’t spend our money on advertisements,”
Hahahahahahahaha.....Yes, whatever we advertise usually ends up in garbage. We glorified the Mobile Courts in KPK through advertisement but its another story that these mobile courts have now turned into rust buckets and sitting inside Peshawar High Court for the last six months. We spent millions on advertising Imran Khan under the aegis of Taleem-ka-Insaf but as of today, thousands of schools in KPK don't even have a roof. Jahangir Tareen was put incharge of Sehat ka Insaf of program and millions of provisional funds were placed at his disposal and yet we ended up making Polio an epidemic in Pakistan. We spent further on online FIR systems and improving KPK Police and yet we could not prevent D.I. Khan jail break nor our Police could act upon the Interior Ministry alert from 28th August, 2014 which eventually resulted in the APS massacre of 16th Dec. 2014.
Now this looks a better and tolerant statement.If Khan Sb can do three things control his ego, stay away from sheikh rasheed and forget dharna politics it will be good for him and as well as Pakistan.