ISLAMABAD: Leader of Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N), Mian Javed Latif, has made highly critical remarks about the PTI founder Imran Khan, calling him a “terrorists’ aider,” and charged PTI with backing India’s underground operations.
During a talk show on a private news channel, Latif declared that the real goal of PTI’s leader is to get power for himself rather than to seek peace and national unity. Latif pointed out that the PTI leader has been the one who safeguarded India’s proxies and at the same time furore within the country. “I consider the PTI founder a terrorist facilitator,” Latif pronounced. “His aim is not peace; it is instability.”
Latif gave priority to national dialogue but declared that such a dialogue should not be in terms of placating the PTI leader. “The government needs national dialogue, not the PTI leader,” Latif observed. Besides, he declared that the agenda of the PTI’s head was never directed at maintaining law and order but keeping the turmoil going.
Latif mentioned that the recent war between Pakistan and India ended in favour of Pakistan, and recharged the latter’s credibility worldwide a rare event when Pakistan managed to defeat its eastern neighbour and regain international confidence. “After a long time, there has been a war and victory on the part of Pakistan, which has been a victory for Pakistan’s confidence on the global stage,” he claimed. He blamed the PTI leader for deliberately causing more instability after this national triumph.
Latif denounced terrorism in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) very strongly and mentioned that ending terrorism in the province was in Pakistan’s interest. He went on to say that if PTI was keen on negotiating with terrorists, why not engage India directly, holding India responsible for wanting revenge after its loss in the war.
Latif also spoke about the resuming of the Taliban fighters out of the stalls of PM Shehbaz Sharif and said that if such a thing happened, he would quit politics. He added that the decision to exonerate 40,000 Taliban fighters was that of the PTI head, General Qamar Javed Bajwa, and Faiz Hameed, and that they were the ones responsible for the Taliban’s return to the country.
Latif concluded that if by any chance, the PTI leader and Faiz Hameed faced the law for their deeds, then others involved should undergo the same treatment.
