I came to power for the accountability of Nawaz ,Zardari : PM Imran Khan

Lahore : Prime Minister Imran Khan Friday
categorically said he would not be blackmailed by threats of million marches and sit-ins by opposition leaders, to escape from the accountability process for looting billions of rupees of public funds.
“Imran Khan will not be blackmailed, as I have come into power only with a motive to hold the corrupt accountable,” he said while addressing a huge public gathering here at Jamrud.

The prime minister referred to the April 4, speeches of
Asif Ali Zardari and Bilawal Bhutto Zardari at Naudero public meeting and offered the PPP leaders with a container and even food if they wanted to stage a sit-in in Islamabad.

He, however, challenged them to hold even a week-long
sit-in in the federal capital as against the PTI’s four and half months’ sit-in, adding, sit-ins only succeed when the leaders raise the issues of masses and share their grievances. He said the people who became leaders by showing a piece of paper [death will] were not the
true leaders. “Leaders emerge through struggle and political hardships”, he added.

Similarly, he said, Maulana Fazlur Rehman who was clean bowled in the General Election 2018 was talking of million march.The prime minister termed Maulana as the12th player and said, “It is like a whinging boy [in the game of cricket] who continues with fielding
the whole day, then gets out on the very first ball at crease, and later starts crying foul to disturb the whole match.” “He (Maulana Fazlur Rehman) is a 12th player and wants to push the government down. You will not get the turn,” he remarked.

The prime minister further said, “Zardari Sahib! This government is not going. You are going to jail.” He regretted that the opposition parties (PML-N and PPP) who had completed their five-year terms each
during the past 10 years were raising questions about the performance of PTI government over the last 7 months.

He criticized the PPP leaders for questioning PTI about
its performance of seven months in power from the first week of government.

He referred to a Joint Investigation Team report and said these people had laundered the public money worth Rs100 billion abroad through fake accounts.

“They are telling us to push the government down and
pressurizing us so as to get an NRO (National Reconciliation Ordinance)”, the prime minister said and added people like Ishaq Dar, an absconder, were telling the government how to improve economy.

He also mentioned the sons of Nawaz Sharif residing in
London and said, “One of his son is living in a house worth Rs6 billion.”

Similarly, he said, a son and son-in-law of Shehbaz Sharif had gone to London. “If you have not done anything wrong, why you have run out of the country,” he remarked.

Imran Khan said when he was called by the court he had presented his 40-year record before it and did not make any hue and cry about democracy getting in danger. “When these people are questioned, democracy comes under danger,” he said.

The prime minister made it clear that those involved in loot and plundering of public money would have to be answerable before the courts as well as before
the nation. “If you have to avoid from going into jails, you will have to give back the public money, which was to be used on health, education and poverty elimination,” he said.