Minister for Information and Broadcasting Marriyum Aurangzeb said on Monday that the PTI Chairman Imran Khan after playing havoc with the national interests had now given up the foreign conspiracy narrative.
In her reaction to Imran Khan’s interview with the Financial Times, she said, “Imran Khan could not be pardoned after retracting from his narrative and he will be held accountable.”
The minister said that on the basis of this narrative, chaos and lies were spread throughout the country and now a simple withdrawal was not enough.
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“After terming the Parliament, the Pakistan Army, the national institutions as traitors, he can’t be let off just by saying it’s behind me and it’s over, Marriyum added.
The PTI head forced people in constitutional positions to violate the constitution for the sake of his concocted story, she remarked.
Imran Khan, she said, had no other option but to surrender his fake rhetoric of the conspiracy, imported government and regime change.
“Imran Khan put Pakistan’s interests in grave danger for the lust for power,” she added .
Imran Khan destroyed employment opportunities and caused inflation as PTI would be remembered for four years of loot and plunder in the country. Referring to Tosha Khana, she said gifted watches and necklaces were looted.
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She said Imran abused opponents, ran dirty campaigns against martyrs and instigated a revolt against national institutions.
The minister said the time had come to stop PTI’s dirty drama targeting opponents and institutions.