Going on, Imran said those who raise their voice against oppression — like journalist Arshad Sharif, are “threatened, sent abroad, and killed”.

“Why? Because they stand on the right path,” he said in Muridke. Sabir Shakir went abroad, Why? Because he was threatened.“

He said he had been saying 26 years that the country “should be free of slavery from the cruel, the thieves, the Americans”.

He said the nation should become that which was the dream of Allama Iqbal and Quaid-e-Azam. “We will not accept this slavery! I am saying this in front of you all that it is better to die than to be a slave of these thieves and the USA, as under them a person dies anyway.

“A slave is a dead person, one can live in jail too but a free person really lives.”