PTI IS THE REAL OPPOSITION PARTY OF PAKISTANI PARLIAMENT

IMRAN KHAN FIGHT AGAINST CORRUPTION :

Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan has said he will continue to fight against corruption in the country till his ‘last breath’. Imran Khan, while addressing a political gathering asked the people, “I need your prayers to fight against the king of corruption ‘PM Nawaz’. “I want youngsters and minorities to stand by me in this struggle,” he added.

He promised for a system of justice, equality, prosperity and merit in Pakistan only if his party is voted into power.

Khan vowed to continue his struggle against corrupt rulers.

“This is for the first time when a prime minister is being scrutinised in Pakistan. I promise that I will continue my efforts to eliminate corruption and to hold the kings of corruption accountable. I promise to fight till my last breath,” he vowed.

Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan has said his party is not doing politics but waging a holy war against a corrupt mafia.

“We are fighting against corruption. We are not doing politics; rather we are waging a Jihad against the godfather of a mafia,” Imran said while addressing a press conference at Nathia Gali.

Talking with reference to recent statements from the ruling party leaders and members of the Sharif family against the Panamagate joint investigation team (JIT), Imran said the ruling PML-N had planned to make the JIT controversial by slandering it.

He said no one could think that a JIT would question the Sharif family a day. “The much-awaited day is coming and it should be a great match,” he said.

“The PTI was real opposition party in the Parliament and
was fighting for the right of masses”(Shafqat Mahmood PTI)

Former governor of Punjab and Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) leader Chaudhry Muhammad Sarwar has said that PTI is the only real opposition and that any compromise on principles on corruption is out of the question.

Addressing party workers here on Sunday, he said that the country’s leaders will have to fulfil the promises they made before the elections, adding that the PTI was gaining strength Pakistan over time.

Sarwar said that the PTI had played its role as an opposition party and raised its voice against corruption, oppression, injustice, and cruelty. He further added that the PTI would continue to do so in the future as well.

“The PTI has never raised any demand in contravention of the constitution or democracy,” he added.

Sarwar said that the party had played its role for the betterment of the country and the welfare of the people. “All promises must be fulfilled so that Pakistan may progress and move forward”, he said.

“It’s too early to write an epitaph for Pakistan Peoples Party. Like the mythical Phoenix, the party is rising from the ashes. And its young chairman, Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, is desperately trying to reclaim some of his party’s lost glory. The party, which has been labelled as a ‘friendly opposition’ for its ‘wheeling and dealing’ with the PML-N government, is now repackaging itself as an aggressive political adversary for the ruling Sharifs”

 (By Irfan Ghauri Published: November 28, 2016) The press TRIBUNE

Khan led Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf became the opposition party in Punjab and Sindh. Khan became the parliamentary leader of his party. On 31 July 2013 Khan was issued a contempt of court notice for allegedly criticising the superior judiciary,[133] and his use of the word shameful for the judiciary. The notice was discharged after Khan submitted before the Supreme Court that he criticised the lower judiciary for their actions during the May 2013 general election while those judicial officers were working as returning officers.[134] Khan's party swooped the militancy-hit northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, and has formed the provincial government. PTI-led Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government presented a balanced, tax-free budget for the fiscal year 2013–14.

On 13 November 2013, Imran Khan, being party leader, ordered Pervez Khattak to dismiss ministers of Qaumi Watan Party who were allegedly involved in corruption. Bakht Baidar and Ibrar Hussan Kamoli of Qaumi Watan Party, ministers for Manpower & Industry and Forest & Environment respectively, were dismissed. Khan ordered Chief Minister KPK to end the alliance with Qaumi Watan Party. Chief Minister KPK also dismissed Minister for Communication and Works of PTI "Yousuf Ayub" due to a fake degree.

(Voice of America reports on Imran Khan-led protests in late 2014)

One year after elections, on 11 May 2014, Khan alleged that 2013 general elections were rigged in favour of the ruling Pakistan Muslim Leaque. On 14 August 2014, Imran Khan led a rally of supporters from Lahore to Islamabad, promising Nawaz Sharif's resignation and investigation into alleged electoral fraud.[141] On its way to the capital Khan's convoy was attacked by stones from Muslim League supporters in Gujranwala; however, there were no fatalities. Khan was reported to be attacked with guns which forced him to travel him in bullet-proof vehicle. On 15 August Khan led protesters entered the capital and a few days later marched into the high-security Red Zone; on 1 September 2014, according to Al Jazeera, attempted to storm Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif's official residence, which prompted the outbreak of violence which has resulted in three deaths and more than 595 people injured, including 115 police officers.

By September Khan had entered into a de facto alliance with Canadian-Pakistani cleric Muhammad Tahir-ul-Qadri; both have aimed to mobilise their supporters for regime change. Khan entered into an agreement with Sharif administration to establish a three-member high-powered judicial commission which would be formed under a presidential ordinance. The commission would make its final report public. If the commission finds a country-wide pattern of rigging proved, the prime minister would dissolve the national and provincial assemblies in terms of the articles 58(1) and 112(1) of the Constitution – thereby meaning that the premier would also appoint the caretaker setup in consultation with the leader of opposition and fresh elections would be held.

“”Chief Justice of Pakistan Mian Saqib Nisar — while hearing a case regarding illegal felling of trees and encroachment of land in Bani Gala, brought to his notice by Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf chief Imran Khan —said Khan can bring change in the country and his influence could help boost the morale of the people.

"Your words can move the nation to look at things positively," Justice Nisar said. "You are not an ordinary citizen, people look up to you."

Briefly touching upon the Panamagate verdict while in court, Justice Nisar said, "Dissenting verdicts are given everywhere in the world but nowhere are they discussed as much as in Pakistan."

"Everyone is supposed to respect the courts and their decisions, including you," Nisar told Khan.

At this, Khan praised the five-member Panamagate bench, saying that he stood behind the country's institutions.

"People come to courts looking for an institution they can trust. It is up to us to rid the air of distrust and move forward," Justice Nisar remarked during the proceedings.

On a lighter note, while reminiscing about their shared past, the chief justice reminded Khan that he had played cricket under Khan's captaincy during their time at Aitchison College.

"Once you hit the ball so hard that it flew all the way beyond the church premises," he recounted.

Regarding the matter of the felling of trees, the court ruled that no trees were to be cut in the Bani Gala Botanical Gardens and National Park.

It also said that any buildings set up within the premises of the Botanical Gardens must not be given electricity and gas connections.

Talking to the media after the hearing, Imran Khan said: "I am grateful to the chief justice for taking notice of a matter of public interest, which I wrote about in a letter to him."

"We stand with the justice system and the nation has high hopes attached to the judiciary," he added””

(Haseeb Bhatti  April 24, 2017) Dawn News

Imran asks PM Nawaz, CM Punjab to resign following JIT report (Dawn.com | Fahad Chaudhry July 10, 2017)

Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf Chairman Imran Khan, while addressing a press conference following the submission of joint investigation team's (JIT) report in the Supreme Court, claimed that Sharif family has been looting the country for the past 30 years but now their time is over.

Imran said Nawaz Sharif should have resigned on moral grounds the day two judges of the SC had ruled that "he was no more fit to hold public office".

"All of our apprehensions have been proven correct," the PTI chief said, adding that the negative role of institutions including Intelligence Bureau (IB) and Securities and Exchange Commission of Pakistan (SECP) has been exposed in the report.

Accusing the Sharif family of making institutions obstruct justice, Khan said that the Sharifs did everything they could to stop the state institutions from performing their duties.

"Instead of sending a reference against him [Nawaz], the speaker [Ayaz Sadiq] forwarded the reference against me," the PTI chief said while demanding a resignation of National Assembly Speaker Ayaz Sadiq along with Nawaz and Shahbaz Sharif.

"They have been asking what their crime is, let me tell them today, money laundering is your biggest crime," Khan said, explaining that laundering money was a bigger crime than corruption since the consequences of former on the country's economy are much greater than that of the latter.

Taking a jibe at the Nawaz Sharif's daughter, Khan said that Maryam Nawaz was the only person in the Panama leaks who claimed that her family's name had been included by mistake. "No one else denied that they had an offshore company other than Maryam nawaz."

"But now the [JIT] report has proven Maryam Nawaz is the owner of the Mayfair flats," Khan said, adding that this meant her father had laundered the money in her name.

They have used ministers, institutions and all other government resources to protect themselves, he said.

The PTI chief also thanked lawyers for the lawyers' movement which became a basis for independent judiciary today.

"It has emerged that Nawaz Sharif is chairman of an offshore company in Dubai," Khan said, promising that Naya Pakistan will have free and independent institutions.

"Shahbaz Sharif was the chairman of Hudaibiya Paper Mills and will not be able to escape," Khan added.