PTI chief Imran Khan set aside all the political correctness and norms in Thursday's Narowal rally, saying whoever goes to receive Nawaz Sharif and Maryam Nawaz at the Lahore airport today "must be a donkey."

"Nawaz and his daughter are not coming to Pakistan after winning laurels for the country but as convicted criminals who had stolen the nation’s Rs300bn and laundered money abroad. Nawaz Sharif is trying to pose himself as Nelson Mandela." —Imran Khan

Khan also chided the PML-N leaders for their 'wailing' at their workers' arrest, asking them to recall when they were pressurising the law enforcement agencies to arrest PTI workers who were participating in Islamabad sit-in over the Panama Papers.

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