Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) chairman on Thursday blamed the federal government for clandestinely establishing relations with India for the sake of business interests in disregard to the supreme sacrifices of freedom seeking people of occupied Jammu and Kashmir.
Terming the Kashmiris as “special people” for their nonstop struggle for freedom in general and the sacrifice of one hundred thousand lives over the past 33 years in particular, he assured them that he would not let their sacrifices go down the drain.
“As long as I am alive I will not let your sacrifices go to waste. I raised my voice for you at all forums; became your ambassador and it’s my promise to you that at every international forum I will not let the world forget your sacrifices.”
The PTI chief was addressing a huge gathering in a playground in the heart of Muzaffarabad on the invitation of AJK Prime Minister Sardar Tanveer Ilyas, who is also his party’s regional president.
Organisers said that it was Khan’s 52nd public meeting after his ouster from power in April this year. The 20 feet high stage from where he spoke to the audience was also said to be the highest in any public meeting in the country.
The PTI chief recalled that when on August 5, 2019 the “fascist Narendra Modi led Indian government" had revoked the special status of occupied Jammu and Kashmir under the UN Security Council resolutions, his government had severed all ties with New Delhi.
“You know very well that every country derives benefits from trade [with other countries]. India is a big country and Pakistan would also have benefited from trade with it. But my government decided that we would never compromise on the Kashmir freedom movement. We made it clear that we will revive relations and trade with India only when it revives the statehood of occupied Jammu and Kashmir.”
However, without naming any particular nation he alleged that ever since this “imported government had been imposed on the Pakistanis under a foreign conspiracy it was working on the agenda of its foreign masters like puppets.”
Referring to the audio leaks, the PTI chief said that he owed gratitude to Shehbaz Sharif for leaking his conversation in the PM’s office with his principal secretary Azam Khan, “which had made it clear to the whole world that the cryptic dispatch was a reality.”
“Shehbaz Sharif you leaked it to harm me but in doing so you have wreaked havoc on yourself,” Khan said.
He reiterated his claim that the US official Donald Lu had told Pakistan’s ambassador that the failure of no confidence motion against Imran Khan would cause Pakistan a great loss and contrarily his replacement with Shehbaz Sharif would go to the benefit of Pakistan.
Mocking PM Sharif, he contemptuously said: “Whenever he sees the boots [of generals] he starts polishing them and particularly the biggest boot – a veiled reference to the army chief – is shone in a way that it reflects the image of the person.”
He asserted that the audio leaks had also revealed that while the PTI government had closed trade with India, Maryam Nawaz had imported machinery from India.
Quoting an alleged conversation between PM Sharif and his principal secretary, the PTI chief said that ever since the “thieves” had been installed they were least bothered [about impact of trade with India].”
“They do not know that we were putting pressure on India that Pakistani people will never mend fences with them unless they restore the statehood of Kashmiris. But what are they doing? They are clandestinely and shamelessly establishing relations with India in disregard to the sacrifices of one hundred thousand Kashmiris.”
“They just want money which is their god.”
He asserted that Pakistan was at the historic crossroads and continuity of the present regime would render it insolvent and bereft of ideology.
Ishaq Dar lambasted
The PTI chief also took strong exception to the return and installation of Ishaq Dar as finance minister, alleging that he had given a written confessional statement in 2000 about how he would launder the ill-gotten money of Sharif family.
" What else could be the biggest crime and disgrace of a country where looters of billions of rupees return after a deal. If we give NRO to such people and give them deals then I ask why you have imprisoned poor people for offences like theft of a cycle, a buffalo or a car?”
“I tell this to the whole nation that if we accept this silently, there won’t be a difference between us and sheep and goats.”
Nation asked to prepare for his call
Claiming that many turncoats would also make their way to the AJK assemblies he asked people to promise him that whoever traded his conscience would not get their votes to return to the legislature.
“Because this is disgrace to democracy and to your vote; they are the people who have turned politics into a business activity despite the fact that politics is a service and public abhors the persons who trade their conscience.”
Khan asked the nation to prepare themselves to respond to his call and asked the Kashmiris to join their Pakistani brethren for a reason.
“The imported government has cut your budget. We had collected a record tax of Rs 6000 billion in the history of Pakistan. Your share in it was Rs 200 billion but they are hardly giving you Rs 60 billion,” he said, recalling that he had given more funds to the PML-N government in AJK after coming to power in 2018.
CEC rebuked
The PTI chief also chided chief election commissioner Sultan Sikandar Raja, terming him as “chief electoral fraud.”
“Though we already knew it, the audio leaks have proven that this charlatan has been fixing matches in collusion with the PML-N.”
“Listen Sultan Sikandar if you possess honour and respect, you should step down and if you don’t this nation will never spare you because you are violating the law and you are committing and planning to commit future electoral fraud.”
He warned that his party would take every step against the CEC for his plans to “violate the mandate of the people.”
Earlier, in his speech the AJK premier said that while Khan had proved himself to be the leader of the Islamic world those who claimed themselves of being of Kashmiri origin had started trade with India and had avoided talking about Kashmir at the UN.
“I assure you that the Kashmiris are on your back because they consider you as their benefactor,” he said, assuring Khan that AJK would witness a real change in all respects in a short span of time in accordance with his vision.
Prior to him, Pakistan Awami Tehreek leader Shaikh Rashid Ahmed, AJK minister Deevan Ali Chughtai and some others also spoke.
Tariq Naqash
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