[VIDEO] India helping Nawaz in 'attempts to weaken army', says PM Imran

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Prime Minister Imran Khan has said PML-N supremo Nawaz Sharif is playing a "dangerous game" by levelling allegations of political interference against the army and claimed that the former premier has India's support.

In an interview with journalist Nadeem Malik on Samaa TV on Thursday, he also said the relations between his government and the military are the "best in history" because all institutions are working in their spheres.

"This is a dangerous game Nawaz is playing; Altaf Hussain played the same game," he said, adding that he was "100 per cent" sure that India was helping the PML-N leader.

"Whose interest is it that our army weakens? Our enemies," he added, saying some "foolish liberals" were agreeing with Nawaz's narrative.

"Look at Libya, Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan, Yemen; the entire Muslim world is ablaze [so] why are we safe? If it weren't for our army, our country would've been in three pieces. India's think-tanks say that they want to break Pakistan."

He said Nawaz was creating a "huge fitna (mischief)" by attacking the army.

"He (Nawaz) is becoming the next Altaf Hussain. He is a coward, I am sure he has support [from India]," he said.

"I am so angry that he went abroad by lying shamelessly. All kinds of lies were told that he is about to die, [his] platelets are low, etc." which led the government to allow him to leave, the premier added.

Answering a question about Nawaz's return to Pakistan, the prime minister said his government was asking the British government to "send him back" and that there was a "plan in place".

"We allowed him to leave on humanitarian grounds ... and now that he is there he has started politics. We know he is meeting different people and is conspiring against the nation," he added.

Prime Minister Imran said he was the "first person in the country's history" who won elections from five constituencies and who was "not grown in any military nursery like Nawaz or Zulfikar Ali Bhutto".

He reiterated that he did not have any issues with the army and came to power after mobilising the public and struggling on his own.

"Justice [Asif Saeed] Khosa during the Panama Papers case had said that all institutions in Pakistan were rotten and paralysed," he said. "Only one institution is intact which is the army and we take their assistance to fight Covid, locusts, etc. If I hadn't sent the NDMA to clean nullahs [in Karachi], more water would have entered [buildings]."

'Army has evolved'
Prime Minister Imran said the army could not be cursed due to the mistakes made by some dictators.

"If a dictator made mistakes will we always call the army bad? If Justice Munir gave a wrong decision will we call the judiciary bad? If politicians looted wealth and stashed it abroad are all politicians bad?" the premier asked.

He said Pakistan's history provided the lesson that the "military's job is not to run the government. If a democratically elected government is performing poorly, it does not mean martial law should be imposed; it means the government should be improved.

"If a judge gives a wrong decision it means the judiciary has to evolve. The army has evolved as well. Contemporary civil-military relations are the best in history because they are all working in their spheres."

He said the army had stood by his decisions including those regarding relations with India, opening of the Kartarpur Corridor and the coronavirus pandemic.

The premier said PML-N supremo Nawaz Sharif was "never a democratic man" and entered politics through the army's support.

"Now he has become a super democrat," he added, saying Nawaz had problems with various former army chiefs and Gen Qamar Javed Bajwa, whom he himself appointed.

The prime minister said Nawaz has problems with the army because "they come to steal and our world-class agencies detect their theft".

He said Nawaz during his tenure had controlled the civil institutions and even the judiciary and had his workers attack the Supreme Court "when justice Sajjad Ali Shah could not be controlled".

"Only the army was not under his control. That is why he couldn't get along [with them]."

Referring to the claim reportedly made by Nawaz that ex-ISI chief Zaheerul Islam had called him to ask him to resign, Imran said: "You were the prime minister, [how] does he have the courage to say that to you?

"If someone tells that to me, I will demand his resignation. I am the democratically elected prime minister; who can dare to tell me to step down?"

Prime Minister Imran said in a democratic system, a person's moral authority is what counts.

"[Nawaz] has no moral authority. When he had a two-thirds majority, he tried to become Ameerul Momineen ... Why don't I want to become the same?"

He said in security matters the army has the biggest say in any country in the world.

"India has become a security issue," he added. "We know India sponsors terrorism in Pakistan but since we were aiming to bring peace because we wanted to lift our economy, the army stood by me."

'Gen Bajwa asked me about meeting opposition'
Answering a question regarding a meeting held between prominent opposition leaders and the army chief, Prime Minister Imran said Gen Bajwa had called the meeting regarding Gilgit-Baltistan after asking him.

"There was a purpose behind [the meeting]," he said. "India is active in GB; it is also part of the CPEC route and ... the region is in limbo. The people there want rights and India is exploiting that.

"It was important that the [army] explained to them what security issues are coming up. Whenever there is a security matter, I prefer the army to explain because they have institutional memory."

The premier said India wanted to create disturbance in the country by creating a Shia-Sunni conflict.

"We knew for three months, they were aiming for the assassination of Shia and Sunni scholars. Thank God our agencies caught that [and] a terrorist group was busted in Punjab," he revealed.

'Will put them all in jail'
Responding to a question, the prime minister said he was not threatened by the opposition's recent announcement to launch a street movement against him. He added that no one could know about street movements better than him.

"To make the public come out, you need to pick something that interests the masses. They (opposition) can never lure masses out," he said, adding that Nawaz was targeting institutions by sitting abroad so he could get an NRO-like deal.

"I am under no pressure. If someone today asks me to give them an NRO to save my premiership, I will step down."

He said the opposition has the right to peaceful protest. "They can do that as much as they want but if they step outside the law, I will put them all in jails."

Asked about his comment regarding 'umpire's finger' during the PTI sit-in against the PML-N government, the premier said he "never meant the army" when he used the term.

"In my eyes, the only umpire is Allah. I went to jail in [Pervez] Musharraf's time, why would I want the army to take over [during PML-N's term]?" he said.

Regarding his visit to the General Headquarters in 2014, Imran said the PML-N government had "asked [then-army chief Gen] Raheel Sharif to talk to us. They asked us to end the sit-in; we said no, everyone knows that."

He said it "would be great" if the opposition decides to resign from the assemblies.

"If we give in to them, our coming generations will never forgive us," he maintained.

'Allegation against Asim Bajwa will be pursued if questions raised'
Prime Minister Imran was asked to comment on a recent controversy generated by a news report regarding the offshore business assets of his aide Lt Gen Asim Saleem Bajwa's family.

In response, he said Bajwa had "produced a detailed document with all the answers" to the serious allegation hurled against him.

"It's a public document; if someone raises any questions over it I will investigate it," the premier added.

"After he (Bajwa) submitted his response, we sat with the law minister and studied his response. If someone has objections to that response I will pursue the matter."

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Answering a question regarding press freedom in the country, the premier said no other government in the past had faced the kind of criticism in the media that the PTI government had in its two years of power.

"The conditions were obviously difficult, so they were reported. But then there was fake reporting; it damaged us," he added.

He said while some media houses had done "a good job", some others "played a role in protecting culprits".

Prime Minister Imran said his government nothing to do with the abduction of journalist Matiullah Jan from Islamabad.

"No one in my government can be involved in it. How was he harming me? How would we benefit from that?"

https://www.dawn.com/news/1582671
 
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Imran has ZERO credibility. He, himself, allowed Nawaz to leave the country and now he is complaining! What a hypocrite!
 
Know he is going to play the traitor card and in a couple of days we'll find out NS was RAWs version James bond

Predictable behavior really :yawn

I am sure the generals are feeding him these one liners and a day before he has to go to GHQ to recite his lessons
 
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Finally we have a leader who is not afraid to speak truth !

NS's personal friendship with Modi and secret meetings with Sajjan Jindal are no secret.
 
Imran has ZERO credibility. He, himself, allowed Nawaz to leave the country and now he is complaining! What a hypocrite!

Lahore High Court (which is supposed to be independent & impartial) allowed Nawaz Sharif to travel abroad for his supposed medical treatment and "ordered" the government to remove his name from ECL. Furthermore they even removed the condition of submitting a surety bond.

It was not Imran Khan or PakGoc but the courts. Had IK defied the court order, the government would have been held in contempt and the likes you would have been jumping up and down that IK is a dictator.

I know you hate anything and everything related to Pakistan, but have some sense of comprehension.

You can still accuse/blame IK of a myriad of other things.
 
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Lahore High Court (which is supposed to be independent & impartial) allowed Nawaz Sharif to travel abroad for his supposed medical treatment and "ordered" the government to remove his name from ECL. Furthermore they even removed the condition of submitting a surety bond.

It was not Imran Khan or PakGoc but the courts. Had IK defied the court order, the government would have been held in contempt and the likes you would have been jumping up and down that IK is a dictator.

I know you hate anything and everything related to Pakistan, but have some sense of comprehension.

You can still accuse/blame IK of a myriad of other things.

wasting time explaining, this has been explained multiple times, I've never read anything from the person to back up "one liner' accusation and blanked statements.
 
NS statement is itself, the biggest evidence against himself and those who are trying to defend India.

India dudh ka dhulha hua nahi hai - as many BJP 'walay' willingly try to divert attention from Indian sponsored terrorism in Pakistan.

Feb 27th "drama topi" , the PM of India, few months shy of re-election, sent Indian jets to kill trees and bird while claiming clouds would have protected Indian jets from getting detected by the radar - attempted to play a dangerous game to just have a sure chance to win next election despite and still yet to provide any evidence of Pakistan's involvement.

BJP is playing a dangerous game and they are the ones to suffer severe consequences for radicalizing the masses by feeding them a radicalized narrative against Muslims of India, Muslims of the world, and Pakistan.
 
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Mark my words, he will be dragged back to Pakistan and thrown in jail.
 
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Mark my words, Kutte kee tarra he will be dragged back to Pakistan and thrown in jail.

Not if he becomes Altaf 2.0 and for that purpose he has already started barking against the military so that he can play victim and gain political asylum instead of facing punishment for looted billions.
 
Not if he becomes Altaf 2.0 and for that purpose he has already started barking against the military so that he can play victim and gain political asylum instead of facing punishment for looted billions.

Well it won't be that simple, he has been convicted by the Pakistani Courts, he was allowed to leave by the courts for health reasons and the courts have now directed he be bought back. The UK authorities if they are indeed a law abiding society will facilitate his extradition back to Pakistan on merit.
 
Gujaral and Moraji Desai fav Indian leaders .

Said by Pakistani Army, atleast they gave one of them a Nishan-e -Pakistan.
 
IK called NS a p**sey. Can you imagine any army officer ever asking IK for his resignation? No chance
 
Burn level IK :))

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Burn level IK :))

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Choosni is a line for the ages.
 
Don’t know if Nawaz is working with India but he definitely seems to be a hero there.

I wonder how PML-N supporters especially their new found “liberal” supporters feel about NS getting massive support from far right Indian networks like Republic.
 
Lahore High Court (which is supposed to be independent & impartial) allowed Nawaz Sharif to travel abroad for his supposed medical treatment and "ordered" the government to remove his name from ECL. Furthermore they even removed the condition of submitting a surety bond.

It was not Imran Khan or PakGoc but the courts. Had IK defied the court order, the government would have been held in contempt and the likes you would have been jumping up and down that IK is a dictator.

I know you hate anything and everything related to Pakistan, but have some sense of comprehension.

You can still accuse/blame IK of a myriad of other things.

No. IK allowed Nawaz to travel abroad if he deposits a RS 7 billion bond. LHC merely removed the condition of the bond.
 
Would you like to have a “peace lover“ like him as the Indian PM? Be honest.

So the pakistani pm should have supported Stinger wielding terrorists in the valley?

Not that a word that Gujral uttered is near to the truth.
 
IK is absolutely spot on.

A small indicator for this is the continuous support NS gets from Indian posters...
 
Shouldn't have let him run away, Sherlock.

The UK authorities if they are indeed a law abiding society will facilitate his extradition back to Pakistan on merit.

Newsflash: they aren't. Vijay Mallya, Nirav Modi and Lalit Modi are chuckling in glee as I type.
 
Well it won't be that simple, he has been convicted by the Pakistani Courts, he was allowed to leave by the courts for health reasons and the courts have now directed he be bought back. The UK authorities if they are indeed a law abiding society will facilitate his extradition back to Pakistan on merit.

There is a reason why many Nawaz Sharifs of the third world have 'invested' money in UK after looting it from their respective countries.

Handing him over to Pakistan will set a bad precedence for future 'investors'.
 
There is a reason why many Nawaz Sharifs of the third world have 'invested' money in UK after looting it from their respective countries.

Handing him over to Pakistan will set a bad precedence for future 'investors'.

There is no doubt that the UK govts of all Parties have talked a good game but they have encouraged every crook to invest here.
 
NS was a total puppet with his boring speeches and afraid to take the name directly. Shown his place now
 
LAHORE: Special Assistant to the Prime Minister on Political Communication Dr Shahbaz Gill says PML-N supremo Nawaz Sharif is targeting the Army because it questioned him for what he called his anti-state activities in league with Indian premier Narendra Modi and his “business partnership” with Indian businessman Sajjan Jindal, whom he secretly met in Murree.

Mr Gill alleged that Mr Sharif and his government were not immediately inclined to announce that Pakistan had apprehended Indian spy Kulbhushan Jadhav. “[Retired] Lt Gen Asim Saleem Bajwa made frantic efforts to convince the Nawaz Sharif government to announce Jadhav’s arrest because such an announcement by the Army would have been seen as if Pakistan’s political government didn’t own it,” he said.

Addressing Mr Sharif, the SAPM said: “When you will commit such anti-Pakistan activities, questions will be asked and answers be sought.”

At a press conference targeting Mr Sharif for his “love and sympathies” with Indian leadership here on Saturday, Dr Gill said the former prime minister always came in conflict with the Army leadership when it asked him about his “secret business deals” with the country’s arch-enemy India and other anti-state activities.

“Nawaz Sharif began his relationship with Indian leadership and businessmen to earn quick bucks but eventually got driven into it and landed in the enemy’s land to work in his business partners’ interest,” he alleged.

Gill says ex-PM was reluctant to announce Jadhav’s arrest and had to be persuaded by Saleem Bajwa

Quoting from Indian journalist Barkha Dutt’s book that Mr Sharif held a secret meeting with Mr Modi in Nepal’s capital Kathmandu and Pakistani diplomats’ statements that the then PM directed them not to issue any statement against India, Dr Gill said Mr Sharif held secret one-on-one meetings with Mr Modi and Mr Jindal while keeping the defence institutions at bay — in sheer violation of state protocols being observed the world over.

When the defence institutions asked questions, he said, Mr Sharif started targeting and maligning them and tried to take refuge under the slogan of democracy.

Explaining why the former PM always encountered conflict with the Army, Dr Gill said Mr Sharif always wanted to become an “Ameer-ul-Momineen” to enjoy absolute power while allowing no one to look into his shady deals with the anti-Pakistan state. He said Mr Sharif faced conflict with the Army in 1993 followed by conflict with Gen Pervez Musharraf, Gen Raheel Sharif and now with Gen Qamar Javed Bajwa.

The armed forces were guarantor of peace in Pakistan, he said and added that intelligence agencies had recently cracked down on an Indian network that was planning to kill Sunni and Shia leadership to fan sectarian violence in the country.

India always wanted to weaken Pakistan Army and attacked it to disintegrate Pakistan as it did in 1971, he said, adding that Indian PM Modi had confessed to it in Dhaka.

Referring to Mr Sharif’s act of welcoming him in Lahore and saying him goodbye at Lahore airport, Dr Gill said Mr Modi told the world that he wanted to engage with Pakistan but the latter was dragging its feet.

Alleging that Mr Sharif always spoke lies, Dr Gill advised him to stop targeting the armed forces. “Don’t do ‘dirty politics’ but target Prime Minister Imran Khan and his party if you have guts,” he asserted. “Be a man and come in direct conflict with PM Khan and political leadership as Mr Khan faced you during his 22-year-long political struggle in the country.”

The SAPM said the PML-N had become a “conspiracy hatching party” and many of its leaders did not want to become part of the party’s latest narrative promoted by Mr Sharif as they were loyal to Pakistan and its state institutions.

He said Mr Sharif started raising the slogan of democracy and attacking state institutions when he found himself caught for his misdeeds. He also chided the former premier for revealing state secrets about atomic bombs and cruise missiles in the media — in violation of his oath as prime minister.

He said the government knew that Mr Sharif was visiting an embassy in London and meeting some people these days and told Mr Sharif, “stop disgracing Pakistan”.

Dr Gill said democratic governments also made mistakes and added that the PTI would readily own its failures and would not shift the burden of responsibility to the armed forces.

He stressed that Mr Sharif should also stop targeting armed forces and do politics in true sense of the word.

Answering a question, the SAPM said the opposition was free to hold protests and public meetings without taking the law into their own hands. However, allowing an absconder and proclaimed offender to make speeches while sitting abroad was a “delicate situation”.

He said Pemra had imposed restriction on airing Mr Sharif’s speeches on the complaint of a lawyer and added that the people would take Mr Sharif to task on social media as they had done with MQM founder Altaf Hussain.

Calling Leader of the Opposition in the National Assembly Shahbaz Sharif a “pathetic” leader, Dr Gill said the latter had himself withdrawn his bail extension application and would probably file the application again while taking different ground.

Answering another question, the SAPM said some 32 PML-N MPAs were in contact with him when he was serving in Punjab.

Published in Dawn, October 4th, 2020
 
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Imran Khan has expressed displeasure over the criminal conspiracy case filed against former prime minister Nawaz Sharif and other PML-N leaders, Federal Minister for Science and Technology Fawad Chaudhry said on Monday.

The minister, in a tweet, said that PM Imran was unaware that such a case had been filed against the PML-N supremo, and that maybe someone wanted to implicate him in a case.

“Prime Minister Imran Khan was unware of any such [first information report] FIR, when I informed him about it, he expressed extreme displeasure,” Fawad Chaudhry said in response to journalist Hamid Mir who had shared the copy of FIR.

"Filing treason cases is not our [PTI government's] policy. These were the tactics [used during] Nawaz Sharif's tenure," he said.

The science minister said that the PTI was a political party and that it was yet to make its move.

"The game has just begun."

Earlier in the day, an FIR was registered against Nawaz on a criminal conspiracy for the “provocative speeches” he made in London to “defame Pakistan's institutions”.

The FIR registered against Nawaz on October 1 was lodged by a citizen in the Shahdra Police Station’s jurisdiction. The case was registered under the provisions of the Pakistan Penal Code for criminal conspiracy against the PML-N supremo and other leaders.

The FIR alleges that the former prime minister, in his speeches, supported the policies of India, and claimed that Nawaz wanted to give the impression that Pakistan will be listed in the Financial Action Task Force's (FATF) grey list in its upcoming meeting.

https://www.geo.tv/latest/311709-pm...over-case-against-nawaz-sharif-fawad-chaudhry
 
PML-N vice president Maryam Nawaz on Sunday advised the director-general of the army's media wing to "be very careful", saying that it "does not suit the armed forces and other institutions to appear [as if] they are standing behind a political party".

"The DG ISPR is a professional soldier and the spokesperson for the institution, he should be very careful," she said while addressing the PML-N's Sher Jawan Movement opening ceremony. "Imran Khan and the government benefit if they drag institutions in politics; it suits them. But it does not suit the armed forces and other institutions to appear [as if] they are standing behind a political party.

"This discrimination should not be there, they (institutions) are as much ours as theirs (government). Such precedents should not be set as it increases the divide between institutions and public."

Maryam was referring to a recent press conference by Maj Gen Babar Iftikhar, the Inter-Services Public Relations' director general, where he had said that any attempt to link the release of Indian pilot Wing Commander Abhinandan Varthaman with anything other than Pakistan's mature response as a responsible state was "disappointing" and "misleading".

Maj Gen Iftikhar's press conference had come a day after PML-N leader Ayaz Sadiq, on the floor of the National Assembly, suggested that the PTI government had released Abhinandan in capitulation, fearing an imminent attack from India. However, the DG ISPR had not named anyone.

Sadiq had last week claimed that Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi had during the post-Pulwama military stand-off with India urged the opposition parties at a meeting of the parliamentary groups to let the captured Indian pilot go because India was set to attack Pakistan that night.

"I remember [Foreign Minister] Shah Mahmood Qureshi sahib was present in that meeting, which the prime minister had refused to attend. The chief of army staff also attended," Sadiq had said while responding to federal minister Murad Saeed.

"With legs shaking and sweat on the forehead, Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi said to us, 'For God's sake, let him (Abhinandan) go back now'," he had claimed, adding "no attack was imminent; they only wanted to capitulate and send Abhinandan back".

Sadiq had subsequently released a video clarification saying that news reports by Indian media on his remarks were "totally contrary" to what he actually said in the parliament. However, government members rubbished his explanations, with Information Minister Shibli Faraz saying that the former National Assembly speaker's "words were beyond forgiveness".

In response to Sadiq's remarks in the National Assembly on Thursday, Minister for Science and technology Fawad Chaudhry said: "Humne Hindustan ko ghuss kay mara hai (We struck India in their home)."

The minister, who was referring to the Pakistan Air Force's response to India's violation of its airspace on February 26 last year, went on to say: "Our success in Pulwama is the success of this nation under [Prime Minister] Imran Khan's leadership." His remarks came on the same day as Maj Gen Iftikhar's press conference.

As other lawmakers sought for the minister to explain his words, Fawad said: "The way we hit India inside their territory after the Pulwama incident [...] India's own media and political leadership is embarrassed by that."

His remarks were reported by the Indian media as a "sensational admission" of Pakistan's alleged involvement in the attack in Indian-occupied Kashmir's Pulwama area in February last year, in which 44 Indian soldiers were killed. Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi too alluded to his statement as being a "confession" by Pakistan of its involvement in the Pulwama attack.

Fawad insisted that only a part of his speech was being used to misinterpret his remarks.

Addressing PML-N workers today, Maryam said that a government minister had made comments due to which "even the Indian prime minister is charge-sheeting us". She went on to say that while the army spokesperson had responded to Sadiq's remarks, he had made no reference to Fawad's comments.

The former prime minister's daughter urged her supporters to stand with her father Nawaz Sharif in their "struggle to get respect for the [public's] vote".

Maryam told PML-N workers "not to malign the uniform" and instead "expose the characters who defame" the armed forces.

She once again criticised retired Lt Gen Asim Saleem Bajwa, saying that the "nation wants to know how you, a salaried man, started businesses across the world".

'Is police uniform inferior?'
Maryam also spoke about the alleged abduction and detention of Sindh inspector general of police, saying he was "kept in isolation for refusing to arrest retired Captain Mohammad Safdar".

Last month, PML-N leader and Maryam's husband retired Captain Safdar was arrested from his hotel room in Karachi for "violating the sanctity of Quaid's mausoleum". He was released on bail the same day.

Following his arrest — which came a day after opposition alliance Pakistan Democratic Movement's rally in Karachi — a purported voice message by PML-N leader and former Sindh governor Muhammad Zubair was shared by a journalist in which Zubair alleged that the inspector general of police was kidnapped and forced to register the first information report against Maryam, Safdar and 200 others for violating the sanctity of the Quaid's mausoleum.

In the audio clip circulating on Twitter, Zubair purportedly said that Chief Minister Murad Shah confirmed to him that police was pressured into making the arrest. "When they (police) refused to do that, Rangers kidnapped [the IGP]," Zubair said.

One day after Safdar's arrest and subsequent release, police personnel across the province had applied for leave en masse in order to "come out of […] shock" caused by the "episode of registration of FIR against Capt (R) Safdar".

PML-N supremo Nawaz Sharif had said the events that unfolded in Karachi were "clear proof of our narrative that there is 'a state above the state'".

Without naming anyone, he said: "You made a mockery of the elected provincial government's powers" and "brought a bad name to the Pakistan Army".

In a previous press conference, Maryam had also alleged that the Sindh inspector general of police was forcibly "taken to the sector commander's office and asked to sign on the arrest orders".

Source DAWN
 
Prime Minister Imran Khan on Friday said PML-N Vice President Maryam Nawaz was getting away with using offensive language against the country's military leadership because women are respected in Pakistan.

Addressing a public gathering after inaugurating the Sehat Sahulat Cards programme in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa's Swat district, he once against vowed not to give any "NRO" (National Reconciliation Ordinance-like concession) to the opposition, saying its leaders had all joined hands to protect their "theft".

He said Maryam, by "taking advantage" of the respect for women, was using inappropriate "language" against an army that was giving sacrifices for the nation on a daily basis and at a time when an "extremist Indian prime minister" who hated Muslims was oppressing Kashmiris, and his national security adviser was threatening Pakistan.

"I assure you, if it had been another country, she would have been thrown into jail. But because we respect women here, she is allowed to speak openly," he added.

Referring to the opposition's Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM) alliances, the premier said all of Pakistan's "biggest thieves" had gathered on one platform because they thought they were above the law.

"One goes to London and acts like he is very ill and we all feel sorry for him," he said, referring to PML-N supremo and Maryam's father Nawaz Sharif. "Even the courts felt sorry for him and asked the government to allow him to go abroad. I asked the courts to at least take guarantee of Rs7 billion from him but eventually he went abroad."

Imran said after going to London, Nawaz and his daughter were initially silent and tried "their best" to gain an "NRO" but when the PML-N leader realised the government would not give him any relief despite "blackmail", he (Nawaz) started attacking the armed forces.

"The game he has started to attack the Pakistan Army and the Pakistani judiciary ... he is asking the armed forces to replace their army and ISI chiefs, meaning he is asking the army to revolt against the army chief to protect his own money. Who could be a bigger enemy of the country," the prime minister said, referring to Nawaz.

"Nawaz Sharif is speaking like jackals (geedar) while sitting abroad [and] his sons have also absconded abroad after stealing money," he added.

Disqualified prime minister Nawaz, in his speeches from London while addressing the anti-government rallies of PDM, has alleged that Chief of Army Staff Gen Qamar Javed Bajwa and ISI chief Lt Gen Faiz Hameed orchestrated his government's ouster in 2017 and rigged the 2018 general elections to "impose the ‘incompetent’ Imran Khan" on the nation.

The premier as well as government ministers reacted strongly to Nawaz's accusations and blasted the opposition parties for what they said was "promoting the enemies’ narrative" and attacking state institutions.

On Friday, Prime Minister Imran said this was a "decisive time" in the country when Nawaz and PPP co-chairperson Asif Ali Zardari, who used to "accuse each other of being corrupt for 30 years", had now joined hands to ask for an NRO from the government.

"Do you think he (Nawaz) should be given an NRO?" he asked the crowd. The premier said the day he gives an NRO to "these thieves" to protect his position would be the day when he commits "the biggest treason against my country".

Imran said the country would only progress if it had rule of the law. He said the government was making efforts to turn Pakistan into a welfare state based on the model of the 'state of Madina'.

Appreciating KP Chief Minister Mahmood Khan for providing health cards to the people, he noted that it was the first province to offer health coverage to its entire population.

He said the government would enable the poor to own their own homes through the Naya Pakistan Housing Programme at affordable rates. He said the government was also working on introducing a uniform curriculum throughout the country for English and Urdu mediums and madressah students which would give a chance to children of the poor to progress.

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"I assure you, if it had been another country, she would have been thrown into jail. But because we respect women here, she is allowed to speak openly," he added

Thrown into jail for insulting an institution/group of people?
 
Prime Minister Imran Khan on Saturday said today, in a never before seen manner, the Opposition is "targeting" the army and criticising it just like the "India propaganda machine".

"So I know [...] and our members of parliament were saying this [...] the way the political Opposition is levelling criticism on the army is unprecedented in Pakistan's history," PM Imran Khan said.

He said former military ruler Gen Pervez Musharraf was also criticised but he was the country's leader as well as the army chief, "so yes of course he was criticised".

"But the sort of language that is being used for the army today is the kind that India's propaganda machine uses against the army."

He was speaking in Chakwal following the unveiling of Chakwal University.

Read more: PM Imran Khan lays foundation stone of development projects in Chakwal

He said that many people of the area — from Jhelum, Chakwal, and Mianwali — had joined the army and had rendered numerous sacrifices in the service of the armed forces.

The premier then spoke of the EU DisinfoLab unearthing at least 700 fake Indian websites in which they would publish news on the name of deceased individuals even.

"The sole purpose was to paint Pakistan in a bad light, so that foreign investors stay away. And then the Pakistan army was especially targeted because India wants to weaken us," the prime minister said.

He said that India has always been planning to present Pakistan Army as "a rogue army and terrorists." "Narendra Modi would openly call the last army chief a terrorist."

PM Imran Khan said that these fake websites "would also promote" the Pakistan Democratic Movement's activities. He said that "there are many journalists also who promote them and were part of the disinformation campaign."

'Corruption documented'
"For the first time, the Opposition is targeting Pakistan's army. The army chief and the ISI chief. And they are saying the army was involved in rigging and so the government is selected.

"So then, did you go to the Election Commission, the Supreme Court, the Parliament?"

He said that the Opposition has been decrying "rigged elections" for the past two years but has not provided any proof. Citing the example of the recently held presidential elections in the US, he said that when a hue and cry over rigging was raised, the media was the first to ask for proof.

"They have looted the country with both hands for the past 30 years," said PM Imran Khan. He said both Opposition party leaders Nawaz Sharif and Asif Ali Zardari have been reported by many UK and US publications as corrupt, with documentaries even made on their "thievery".

"They would call each other corrupt at one point in time," he said.

The premier said that the Opposition only holds its own interests dear and not those of the country.

'NRO for Opposition greatest act of treason'
He said today, Pakistan needs a strong army "like never before", because never before was there a government in India like today. "Extremist, totalitarian, racist, anti-Muslim, anti-Islam and anti-Pakistan, [...] and with what they are doing to the Kashmiris, it's unprecedented."

The premier said that under such circumstances, the "Opposition is telling the army to remove an elected government from power and remove the army chief if he is unwilling to do so".

"They are telling the army to do a military coup in the country and they call themselves democratic."

PM Imran Khan terms PDM rally 'pathetic', vows 'there will never be an NRO'

The prime minister said he had never before witnessed such attempts to undermine the country by any government. He said that the Opposition's sole aim is for the government to give them an NRO in some way. "

They want to blackmail us. They know they can't do that to me, so they have set their sights on institutions, thinking they can pressurise me to forgive them."

PM Imran Khan said that if anyone grants "any of these people" an NRO, it will be "the greatest act of treason" against the country. "The enemy wouldn't have acted in a way worse than such a person who lets them off the hook."

'What example will we set if we don't punish them?'
He said that he is aware of the needs of the people, but when the "corrupt" rule the country, the entire system under which people's needs should be serviced is destroyed.

The premier said the government has "very little" left to spend on the people due to half of its collections being used for debt repayment int he first year and in the second, even more than that due to accrued interest.

"If we don't punish such people, what kind of example are we setting for our children? That the powerful can get away with anything and the jails are only for the poor?" he asked.

'What is your qualification?'
Without naming PPP Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari and PML-N Vice President Maryam Nawaz, "the two children who are holding NRO rallies", the prime minister said that if someone were to ask them what their job experience is, what would they say?

"They will say our fathers are the most corrupt people in Pakistan. And they have cases lined up against them. And they are being convicted by the courts. This is our qualification."

He said the two "have not worked an hour in their life".

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"These two (Nawaz and Zardari) have looted the country for 30 years and are billionaires and have billions abroad and their children are also abroad.

"What is the reason that you two (Bilawal and Maryam) are the leaders of the party? What have you done?" asked the prime minister.

PM Imran Khan further said: "The two have set out to run the country. And what is their job experience? That 'we had a very privileged upbringing but unfortunately the money was not legitimate income'."

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