Govt making JIT controversial: Imran

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SIALKOT: Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf chairman Imran Khan has accused the PML-N government of making the joint investigation team (JIT) controversial, saying his party will foil every attempt to affect the probe body.

He said this while talking to the newsmen during an Iftaar dinner-cum-fundraiser held at a local hotel near the city on Thursday.

Mr Khan said the PML-N government was undermining the JIT through different ways, repeating party’s history of attacking the Supreme Court.

He strongly condemned the derogatory attitude of a PML-N official with the Awami Muslim League president Sheikh Rasheed Ahmed outside the parliament, saying the ruling party staged the “drama” to insult a senior parliamentarian. Imran down played the issue of leaking of a picture of premier’s son Hussain Nawaz, saying since the Sharifs “plundered the national wealth they should all be behind the bars”. He announced that he would take the issue of PML-N criticism of JIT to the Supreme Court on Monday.

He also pledged a “tit-for-tat” policy against the PML-N government to safeguard the prestige of the JIT.

He claimed that the “Sharifs’ monarchy” would end before the end of 2017.

Published in Dawn, June 9th, 2017

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