ISLAMABAD: Minister for Information and Broadcasting Marriyum Aurangzeb on Tuesday criticised Imran Khan, chairman of the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI), and said the former prime minister could not see the country submerged in floods as he only wanted to see himself back in power.
In a statement, the minister declared that Khan’s problem was his “ego, arrogance, self-righteousness, lust for power and corruption”.
She said Khan should first decide what was his real problem — foreign conspiracy, real freedom, the chief election commissioner or NRO for corruption?
The minister alleged that the PTI leadership did not want freedom, but an NRO for what she called their “real corruption”.
There was no foreign conspiracy, but they want NRO for their “real conspiracy of foreign funding”, she maintained.
Aurangzeb said Khan’s aim was not an election but closure of corruption cases against him.
Khan was asking for NRO by threatening and using abusive language, she said adding that the PTI chief was also seeking NRO for Farah Khan and his wife Bushra Bibi.
She said the CEC had committed no sin, he only announced the verdict in the foreign funding case, which had been pending for eight long years.
The minister opined that Khan was asking the CEC for NRO in the case.
Lashing out at Khan’s duplicity, she said that on the one hand he had adopted anti-American rhetoric and on the other hand he rented the services of a US-based firm for lobbying in his favour in the US and he held secret meetings with host leadership.
