Imran Khan said, ‘On Sunday evening you will have to come forward to oppose the dream of Pakistan. (file)
Islamabad:
Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan has praised India as a “Khuddar Qaum” (very self-respecting people), saying that no superpower can set the conditions for the neighboring country, acknowledging that New Delhi and Islamabad The two do not share a good relationship.
“Bharatiyas are khuddar koums (very self-respecting people). No superpower can set the conditions for India,” he said on Friday during his national address on the eve of the controversial no-confidence vote.
He said: “I am disappointed that we do not have good relations only because of the ideology of the RSS and what has been done to Kashmir.”
Raising the charge of foreign hand again, Imran Khan said that both India and Pakistan got independence together, but Islamabad is used as tissue paper and thrown into the hands of foreign forces.
“We and India got independence together, but Pakistan is used as a tissue paper and thrown away,” he said, adding that he is not anti-American, but a foreign conspiracy “an attack on our sovereignty.” is.”
The Imran Khan government suffered a setback on Thursday when the Supreme Court of Pakistan overruled the deputy speaker’s decision rejecting a no-confidence motion moved by the opposition.
The court set aside the dissolution of the Pakistan National Assembly and all subsequent decisions.
Addressing further, the Prime Minister expressed his dismay at the Supreme Court’s decision.
He said, “I am upset with the Supreme Court’s decision. I was upset because when the Deputy Speaker conducted the inquiry, the Supreme Court should have probed it.”
Pointing to “large-scale horse-trading in the opposition camp”, Imran Khan asked: “Which country’s democracy allows such acts?”
He said, “I am upset that when these things are happening openly, I have never seen anything like this in a western democracy. I have never seen people selling their conscience. Supreme Court has to do such activities. But self-cognizance should be taken.”
In a sign that his Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf government may lose the no-confidence vote, he urged people to take to the streets on Sunday evening and said he would join their struggle.
“You have to come out on Sunday evening to protest the dream of Pakistan. I will be with you. I will fight with you. I will not accept any scenario in which an imported government is brought into Pakistan,” he said. They said.
He also referred to his visit to Russia when Moscow launched a military operation in Ukraine and said that a US official had told a Pakistani diplomat that he (Imran Khan) should not have visited Russia.
He also hit out at PML-N chief Shahbaz Sharif, who is the opposition’s choice for the prime minister’s post.
Imran Khan said, “We have leaders who say that beggars are not pickers… they can sacrifice everything for Pakistan for their money.”
The Supreme Court directed the holding of a meeting of the National Assembly “not later than 10:30 am on April 9” for a no-confidence vote.
The court set aside all the steps taken after the no-confidence motion was dismissed.
It also announced that the Prime Minister and Federal Ministers, Ministers of State, Advisors would be restored to their respective offices on April 3.
The top court further ruled that the session of the National Assembly on the no-confidence motion should be called by Saturday morning and should not be adjourned till the vote on the motion is taken up.
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