Federal Minister for Railways and Aviation Khawaja Saad Rafique has said ‘Jatha politics’ is a dangerous trend, and it should not be allowed in the country at all.
Addressing a press conference here on Friday, he said political leaders never use jathas [groups] to resist a court order, and they surrender to the law gracefully.
Criticising the Imran Khan government’s alleged excesses against his political opponents, he said: “All certified political leadership of the country was imprisoned and defamed by levelling fake allegations against them.”
He questioned that why an agreement was not being finalised with the IMF, asserting that the IMF knew that Pakistan was financially a weak country and it was demanding implementation of new conditions every other day for signing the agreement.
“Finance Minister Ishaq Dar has shared one of the conditions with the media a day earlier,” he added.
He said that this was the game being played with the solidarity of the country. “He (Imran) is not a politician but a threat to the country, “ he alleged.
The minister said there were two separate laws for the common man and for Imran Khan and no such concessions were ever given to other parties’ leaderships. “We are still appearing before courts and never avoided the proceedings,” he added. The PML-N senior leader said that everybody knew that Mian Nawaz Sharif and Maryam Nawaz used to appear before courts regularly.
He said Imran Khan would have to appear before courts even if it was acceptable to him or not. Kh Saad alleged that Imran had never struggled for the rule of law, never faced any dictatorship and never raised voice for the rule of Constitution, adding that he just played cricket in his life, told lies and used abusive language against his opponents.
