Fazlur Rehman says Imran khan propped to govt by foreign powers

Pakistan Democratic Movement Chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman has called out Prime Minister Imran Khan for issuing opposition threats and said that Imran was propped into government by foreign powers and now he is resorting to the populist slogan as “his boat is capsizing.”

Addressing a press conference in Islamabad at the house of Liaquat Khattak, the brother of Defence Minister Pervez Khattak, Rehman claimed Imran received foreign funding from the United States, Israel and India. Imran Khan angered China on the behest of the United States, he said.

PDM Chief said that Imran Khan was issuing threats to the opposition that he would act against them after the no-trust motion is defeated. “Don’t issue threats. We are not wearing bangles either, he said.

He said Imran Khan’s fate would be worse than that of Afghanistan’s Ashraf Ghani, who fled the country as the Taliban closed in on Kabul on August 15, 2021.

Fazlur Rehman said even Imran Khan’s foreign masters had been disappointed with him because of his incompetence.

The PDM chief said the US had never asked Imran Khan’s government to provide military bases in Pakistan as officials, including National Security Advisor Moeed Yusuf, had told MPs in briefings. “Had they asked for bases, you would not dare refuse them,” he said.

He said Imran Khan was using abusive language against the opposition, but “the difficulty is we are gentlemen. We don’t have expletives on our tongues,” he the PDM chief said.

He questioned why the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) had failed to decide the foreign funding case against the PTI.

Meanwhile, Liaquat Khattak has joined Fazlur Rehman’s Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam.