Web Desk (LTN NEWS): PTI Chairman Imran Khan, whose party is being investigated by the election commission for receiving illegal funds, poked fun at ECP on Thursday. Khan said that if the ECP chief watched the telethon, he would have learned what foreign funding is.
Mr. Khan told a crowd in Sargodha Sports Stadium, “CEC Sikandar Sultan Raja, if you are listening then I hope you now understand what foreign funding is.” During the telethon, he asked the ECP head if he had “seen the foreign funding” and told him that most of the money had been promised by Pakistanis living abroad.
Mr. Khan said that the party would have been able to raise Rs10 billion if they had more time. Earlier this week, during a three-hour telethon, the former prime minister was able to raise Rs5 billion for flood victims. Many Pakistanis, mostly those living abroad, pledged to help the victims.
Mr. Khan said, “I am the captain who would fight harder if backed up against a wall. If they keep putting me in a corner, I might expose those who brought the country to the edge of disaster.”
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“For the sake of the country, I have been patient for four months. The country is with me. Imran Khan yelled I can always shut down Islamabad with one phone call, but I won’t because the economy is bad.”
He said that there was also a plan to “completely eliminate” him, but he found out about it and made a tape with the names of the people involved in case something happened to him.
Imran Khan says that the economy was doing well when his government was overthrown, which he says was because of a plot. “I want to know who is to blame for putting crooks in charge of the country and making this chaos,” said Mr. Khan, referring to the country’s high inflation.
The former prime minister said that people were trying to get him out of politics because his opponents were afraid that if elections were held, the PTI would win a two-thirds majority. This is especially true after the PTI won all of the by-elections in Punjab. He also said that the only way out of the situation right now is to have general elections that were fair.
