ISLAMABAD: Sheikh Waqqas Akram, the PTI’s central communications secretary, asserted on Sunday that, unlike his political opponents, Imran Khan, the party’s founder, never depended on outside help to close agreements.
Mr. Akram mentioned PML-N leader Nawaz Sharif and President Asif Zardari, who he said had previously “negotiated deals” to flee the country in order to avoid being imprisoned.
The PTI leader was reacting to the accusations made by PPP Chairperson Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari and PML-N Leader Khawaja Asif. While the latter claimed that foreign powers were targeting Pakistan’s nuclear and missile programs under the pretense of backing Mr. Khan, the former had claimed that the PTI founder was an “asset” for Israel.
The two leaders were pursuing the PTI founder “to garner public attention and media coverage,” according to a statement released by Mr. Akram on Sunday.
A PTI spokesman denounces Kh Asif and
Bilawal’s charges against the former prime minister.
He claimed that Mr. Khan had always rejected foreign intrusions and plots.
He reminded Mr. Asif that he had referred to the PTI founder as “Taliban Khan” before beginning to refer to him as an “Israeli asset.”
Mr. Akram said, “By calling Khan an Israeli asset, are you trying to accuse the Pakistan Army of supporting the PTI at the behest of Israel?” The PML-N used to refer to Mr. Khan as “a project of the army.”
He asserted that even though Mr. Asif held a crucial position as defense minister, his repeated remarks “embarrassed Pakistan on the international stage.”
Mr. Akram advised the PPP chairman not to criticize Imran Khan, a “leader of international stature,” and referred to him as an “angry political child.”
“[President] Zardari has a history of using his politically immature young son as leverage in negotiations by letting him target Sharifs in an attempt to pressure the PML-N into making concessions,” Mr. Akram asserted.
Additionally, Mr. Akram asserted that the PTI founder’s opponents secretly agreed that he gave up his comfort for the “greater good” of Pakistan and that only “he was a political reality.”
The political decline of the Sharif and Zardari dynasties was coming, Mr. Akram stated, adding that Mr. Khan is a leader of “international stature” and that his detractors were “mere pawns unleashed by their masters to unnecessarily criticize him.”
Regarding the PPP-PML-N alliance, Mr. Akram claimed that this “power-hungry clique” entered the “marriage of convenience” not to further the interests of the country but rather to “deliberately push Imran Khan out of the political landscape.”
“Their evil scheme finally backfired, as their attempts to marginalize him were a complete failure.”
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