KARACHI: Khurram Dastagir, the Federal Minister for Power, has claimed that former Prime Minister Imran Khan had “Nazi intentions” to extend his rule for 15 years by disqualifying the whole leadership of opposition parties.
Mr Khan, according to the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz leader, has resolved to disqualify all opposition leaders by the end of the year, including PML-N president Shehbaz Sharif, Ahsan Iqbal, Shahid Khaqan Abbasi, and others. In this scenario, it was clear that the former premier, with the help of the forces that be, sought to sweep the opposition leadership clean, as he said.
The minister backed up his assertion by recalling that the former prime minister had also announced the hiring of 100 judges to expedite trials against his political rivals.
Mr Dastagir made these remarks during a private TV show in response to a query about what motivated his party to accept only one and a half years of rule in the country. “The coalition was only formed because Mr Khan had a fascist strategy to assault our country,” he claimed.
Today’s times are challenging, but one must remember that while the nation’s economy was being debated, there were questions of democracy, federation, and authority, all of which had to be viewed in the context of the bigger scheme, he added.
“Khurram Dastagir stated openly that the constitutionally elected government of Imran Khan was overthrown through a conspiracy to spare the opposition from corruption cases,” PTI leader and ex-minister Ali Haider Zaidi claimed while tweeting a recording of the show on his Twitter account. These criminals are now murdering [damaging] the economy, which is regrettable.”
