Pakistan’s Prime Minister Imran Khan speaks at the start of a two-day meeting of the 57-member Organization of Islamic Cooperation at Parliament House in Islamabad, Pakistan
Highlight
- The top court should have looked into a threatening letter before delivering its verdict,” Imran Khan said
- Khan said he firmly believes that the judiciary is the custodian of justice in the country.
- Imran Khan said – no superpower can scare India and the country’s foreign policy
A day ahead of the controversial no-confidence motion, Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan addressed the nation on Friday. The Prime Minister called upon India, and praised the nation, and said that no superpower can intimidate the country. He also emphasized his allegations of “foreign conspiracy” and said US officials were unhappy with his visit to Moscow.
Here are the main points of his speech
- “I have respect for the Supreme Court and the judiciary, but the apex court should have looked into a threatening letter before passing its verdict,” Khan said in his address.
- “There was foreign interference in Pakistan’s no-confidence motion. I wanted the SC to at least look into it, it was a very serious allegation that a foreign country wanted to topple the government through a conspiracy.” Could have asked for and looked at the document to see if we were telling the truth. I was a little disappointed as this is a huge issue and there was no discussion on it in the Supreme Court.”
- “The youth of Pakistan are our future and if they see politicians selling their conscience, what example are we setting for them,” he said.
- Referring to his arrest under the previous regime, Khan said he firmly believed that the judiciary is the custodian of justice in the country, but added that he would like to take the court’s stand on Article 63(a) of the Constitution with regard to horse-trading. disappointed with.
- Khan also said that in a meeting of the Pakistani ambassador to the US with a top US official, the latter had canceled his visit to Russia. He said the ambassador was told that if Imran Khan is ousted, Pakistan will be spared, no matter who takes over, and alleged that PML-N president Shahbaz Sharif, “who had apparently been sworn in Have prepared your sherwani for the ceremony”. This “alien conspiracy” was involved.
- Imran Khan said that no superpower can intimidate India and the country’s foreign policy. He said, “I know India better than other countries. No superpower can control India’s foreign policy. It is because of the ideology of the RSS that India-Pakistan relations have broken down.”
- Imran Khan advocates voting rights for Pakistanis living abroad Imran Khan appealed to the people to let the elections decide the fate of Pakistan. He said, ‘We have to decide what kind of Pakistan we want’
- He said that the media has no shame as they are celebrating the fall of the government.
- The people, not the army, can defend democracy. Come before the people and announce the election. The corruption-ridden opposition wants to see me out of power so that cases against them can be pressed. I am ready to fight: Imran Khan
- Attacking the opposition, he said that they are ready to rig the next election. He said the opposition leaders would drop the legal cases against him after coming to power.