While addressing a rally in Karachi during his one-day visit, Prime Minister Imran Khan announced that after winning the trust of the National Assembly, he would aim his “gun” at the former president and the current co-chairperson of the Pakistan Peoples Party, Asif Ali Zardari. The prime minister accused the former president of theft, money laundering, and using the “police and thugs to get people killed.” He further added that Zardari has also set aside money for horse-trading before the motion of “vote of no confidence” is taken before the lower house. “One of my MNAs told me he was offered Rs.200 million,” Khan claimed. Imran Khan warned the former president adding that “Asif Zardari, your time is near.”
Shifting his focus towards the opposition leader, the prime minister called the PML-N President, Shehbaz Sharif, a “boot polisher.” Imran Khan also warned the opposition leader that his time had come. Talking about the opposition’s vote of no confidence in the lower house, he said that he had been waiting for such a motion to be presented before the house and that the opposition had fallen into his trap.
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The Prime Minister said, “I was thinking of somehow getting hold of their neck … God listened to my prayer and they submitted a no-trust move. Now they have been trapped and their no-confidence move is going to rebound on them.” Imran Khan said that he had been waging war against corruption since he joined politics 24 years ago, and his struggle would not stop now. While discussing the opposition’s criticism of his speech in Mailsi, he said that these are the people “who worship those gods where their money lies”. Finally, the premier announced that he would visit the interior Sindh very soon.
Opposition responds:
Following the premiere’s address, Maryum Aurangzeb, Spokesperson for the Pakistan Muslim League in a press conference, rebutted Imran Khan’s “tall” claims of mitigating inflation. She added that the sugar prices going from “Rs.92 to Rs.130” was not part of any “western conspiracy” she added the same about the escalating costs of petrol, diesel, and ghee. She further added that the Prime Minister was “delusional.”
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The Spokesperson further noted that PM Imran’s speech and body language during his address to the rally in Karachi made it evident that the opposition’s no-confidence move would succeed. “He spoke about opposition’s political death, but his address made it apparent that his own political death is imminent,” she said while speaking to the media in Islamabad.
Vote of No-Confidence:
Pakistan’s opposition parties moved a no-confidence motion on 8th March seeking to oust Prime Minister Imran Khan, accusing him of mismanaging the economy and of poor governance.