Nukes not safe under Sharif: Imran Khan

In an incendiary speech on Wednesday night, Imran Khan had said he wanted to ask the country's establishment if the people who were brought to power as part of a "conspiracy" can safeguard the country's nuclear program.

"The conspiracy under which these people were brought to power, I ask my institutions, is our nuclear program which is in their hands, can they protect it?" Khan said.

The former Prime Minister has been claiming that his ouster was part of a foreign conspiracy hatched by the US, which furious over

Khan's Moscow visit on the eve of Russia's invasion of Ukraine had sought to remove Imran Khan so that it could "forgive" Pakistan.

Addressing the US, Khan at the Peshawar rally said, "America, we don't need your apology... who are you to forgive us? You are accustomed to these slaves, these Sharifs, these Zardaris."

"Is the nuclear program safe in the hands of these robbers, whose money is outside?" Imran Khan further said.

Addressing the country's institutions again, he said, "Aren't you putting the safety of Pakistanis in the hands of these thieves, have you no fear of God?"

Meanwhile, Pakistan Army has rubbished Khan's allegations.

"There is no such threat to our nuclear program and we should not bring it up in our political discussions," DG-ISPIR, Gen Iftikhar said.

"Our program is at such a place that our command and control mechanism, asset security is one of the best in international evaluation," he added.

Advocate Naeem Haider Panjutha filed the petition referring to media reports

The petition said Nawaz Sharif was being issued a diplomatic passport on the instructions of newly elected PM Shehbaz Sharif, Dawn reported. The petitioner stated that as Sharif was “a court absconder who was convicted by (National Accountability Bureau) Court for corruption, it is violative of law, a mockery of the justice system and disgrace to the nation if a diplomatic passport is issued to a convict.”