Imran confident of winning next elections
LAHORE: Pakistan Tehrik-e-insaf (PTI) Chairperson Imran Khan said on Tuesday that his party will return to power and will “not even need to campaign” due to the current situation in the country.
Addressing a seminar, the PTI chief said free and fair elections are needed immediately to lit the country out of the ongoing economic turmoil in order to restore stability and confidence.
“The more the government delays elections, the more beneficial it will be for the PTI and we will not even need to campaign due to the current situation of the country,” he said.
The former prime minister maintained that a “government with a clear majority needs to come so it can take bold decisions.”
Lashing out at the incumbent government’s performance, Imran said that any new government will need to take “hard steps” to correct the country’s course.
“It’s not easy to bring the powerful within the ambit of the law,” he said.
Imran also said that Pakistan needs to focus on how to atract investment inflows into the country and investors should be specially incentivised.
He said that government amnesties should only be provided to those who invest in the country’s industries.
Imran claimed that he still does not understand what those allegedly behind his government’s ouster were seeking when Pakistan had come out of multiple crises.
“When we found out about the conspiracy [to remove my government], I sent Shaukat Tarin to tell the neutrals that the economy would be impacted because of the political destabilisation,” he said.
Imran subsequently criticised the Sharif and Zardari families, asking why they were “brought in to handle the country’s affairs,” pointing to the track record of their governments in the 90s.
Separately, Islamabad High Court (IHC) Chief Justice Aamer Farooq said that nobody can challenge the writ of the state during the hearing of a case against the expected sit-in and possible closure of roads by the PTI.
Farooq heard the petition of traders of the federal capital against the PTI’S planned sit-in at the Faizabad Interchange and said that the decisions of the Supreme Court and the IHC are present regarding the protest.