In a startling revelation, Makhdoom Javed Hashmi on Monday said that Chaudhary Nisar Ali Khan - a top leader of Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) - had exhausted all the options in opposing nuclear tests conducted by Pakistan in 1998.
Speaking at a press conference, Hashmi said that he had personally advised the then prime minister Nawaz Sharif to test fire a nuclear-capable missile despite mounting international pressure. "Chaudhry Nisar had opposed it [nuclear test] in all cabinet meetings," he added.
Hashmi, who is also PTI's president, regretted PML-N's duplicity and said people, who had opposed nuclear tests "consider themselves to be the ones who accomplished this gigantic task. Actually, they were not". PTI chief Imran Khan, who was accompanying Makhdoom Javed Hashmi, said that a large number of sitting PML-N parliamentarians, "are just waiting for a 'green signal'" to join the party. "We are telling them that we cannot accept them because they don't fit in," he said.
He also made it clear that PTI would not forge an alliance either with the MQM and or the PML-N because they "are status quo parties". "The MQM is a coalition partner of the PPP, which is protecting a corrupt regime so there is no way we are going to form an alliance," he maintained.
The PTI chief said that neither the PPP nor the PML-N were serious about eradicating the menace of corruption because both "are involved in money laundering". "They are one when adopting a constitutional amendment, but why can't they stand together to root out corruption," he questioned. "If they are really serious," he added, "why they remained mum over the past four years."
Accusing both the PPP and PML-N of striking a "deal" to form government turn-by-turn, he said: "The PML-N chief is man who supported Asif Zardari and did not allow Dr Farooq Hassan, a renowned lawyer, when he was all set to challenge his candidature for presidency."
About the issue of dual nationality, Imran said that the Constitution did not allow any person to sit in Pakistan's parliament who held dual nationality. In reference to a statement made by Prime Minister Gilani, in which he supported parliamentarians holding dual nationality, Imran said after his conviction by SC, he "is no more a prime minister".
He scoffed the prime minister and said: "It is better that he [Gilani] should first learn to interpret his own conviction, then his interpretation about the rest of the legal issues could be given some weight". Shaheen Khan of Golra, who joined the PTI after parting ways with the PML-N after 28-year-long association with the party, said that today he had heaved a sigh of relief after "getting rid" of his former leadership.
Shaheen, who is the brother-in-law of PML-N MNA Anjum Aqeel Khan of Golra, said that Chaudhary Nisar Ali Khan's arrogance had forced him to say goodbye to the party. "I kept on tolerating his [Nisar] arrogance for the past two and half decade... I'll now see how this 'pharaoh' wins this time, [as] it was me who had been bearing all the elections expenses out of my pocket," he added.
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