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Islamabad to be shut down after Muharram, says Imran

LAHORE: Chairman of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Imran Khan has given another ultimatum to both Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and the state institutions, threatening that he will not allow the PML-N government to function after Muharram if the premier did not present himself for accountability and the state institutions failed to take any action against him within a month.

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“Nawaz Sharif’s corruption and money-laundering is an open-and-shut case. If the country’s institutions failed to take any action against him, we will shut down Islamabad after Muharram,” he threatened while addressing a large public meeting at Adda Plot, a few kilometres away from the Sharif family’s Jati Umra estate, on Friday night. Imran declared the event as the last public meeting against Nawaz Sharif and that he would no more hold any rallies against the PM but make a decisive move. He said it was Nawaz Sharif’s end now. He asked his party workers and supporters to make preparations for shutting down Islamabad, adding that “I willshutdown and come what may, I will never accept the destruction of the country under this dacoit (Nawaz Sharif).” He said he would have launched a sit-in at the rally place right from today (Friday) had there been no tension at borders with India. 

The public meeting was managed by the PTI single-handedly after his two allies – Tahirul Qadri and Chaudhrys of Gujrat – refused to go to the backyard of Nawaz Sharif. However, it turned out to be large enough for Imran Khan to issue a threat seemingly impossible to carry out. He also lashed out at his deserting allies and said: “I was criticised for being left alone by my allies. I have been calling them to join me against a corrupt prime minister. Did I ask them for a hand in matchmaking or something that they got angry? One said he was not ready to go outside Nawaz Sharif’s residence while the other had some other excuse for not coming.”

Luckily, only one incident of eve-teasing was reported in this rally, mainly because the women enclosure was kept entirely separate from the main enclosure. However, the security apparatus, bulk of which came from Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (KP) could not manage proper security as enthusiastic fans kept climbing over the razor-wire fences frequently to encroach upon the media enclosure and the enclosure housing the main stage of the leaders. When Imran Khan began his speech, a large number of workers jumped into the media enclosure by making many large breeches in the razor-wire fence, creating huge problems for the media persons in performing their duties. The charged workers occupied the chairs of the media persons and kept raising loud slogans and dancing in front of them all through the speech of Imran Khan which led to several incidents of wrangling and brawl with the media.

During the speech of Imran Khan, several video clips were played on large screens showing the Sharif family members including Maryam Naw

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