Imran again targets PM Shehbaz’s criticism for “buying five votes”

Web Desk(LTN News): Imran Khan was referred to as a “fake and a liar” by Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Saturday as he attacked the leader of the PTI for “bidding in the PM House.”

Outside the Special Central Court in Lahore, Prime Minister Shehbaz claimed that Pakistan’s PM was “bidding [for people] in the PM home.”

“He had established a marketplace where consciences were being bought and sold. The prime minister questioned whether a sitting prime minister could commit a worse crime than this in reference to recent audio leaks in which Imran is supposedly heard saying “five” while speaking.

Two further damaging audio recordings, supposedly made by the PTI leader, surfaced yesterday, showing he intended to trade lawmakers and use a “US cypher” to name those who would oppose him in the confidence vote in April as traitors.

“He himself is claiming that he bought five votes; where did the money come from? Such a serious offence; what would be more serious than a prime minister declaring, ‘I have bought five votes’?

Where did you get the funds—from the government’s coffers or from Farah Gogi and others who donated jewels? What source?

After the leaks became public on Friday, the PTI leader claimed in a rally that the PML-N was responsible for a “new game of phoney audios,” while other party officials claimed the audios were a product of “cut and paste,” allowing several talks to be combined.

The disclosures, according to Prime Minister Shehbaz, “revealed” Khan’s “hypocrisy,” and his “anti-state deeds” rendered him unfit for a high position.

Latest audio leak exposes the hypocrisy of Imran Niazi. Someone who does not tire of lecturing nation on morality is himself blantantly involved in immoral horse trading. His fraudulent nature is being exposed every day. Niazi's anti-state actions make him unfit for high office.

— Shehbaz Sharif (@CMShehbaz) October 7, 2022

Shehbaz stated today that the PTI leader has a national responsibility when speaking to the media outside the accountability court. “I have established with facts that you are a liar and a phoney.

“You plotted against the country […] the leaked audios revealed your drama and falsehoods.”

Imran, the prime said, “lies day and night and brings dishonour to Pakistan.”

“Given how our relationships with the US were damaged, we are now working to rebuild those bonds,” the statement reads. I have never witnessed a greater conspiracy against Pakistan, and he exemplifies the worst mentality there is.

“And I feel compelled to say that I have not seen in my life a bigger liar, conspirer, deceiver, and one with a fraud mentality,” he reiterated.

PM Shehbaz then urged the nation to think. “When we came into the government, we were at the brink of default. But we prevented that […] these are the bitter truths.”