ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Imran Khan Sunday likened himself to former premier and PPP founder chairman Zulfikar Ali Bhutto (ZAB), who was, what he claimed, hanged for attempting to give the country an independent foreign policy.
The PM carefully reads out from pages with reference to the conspiracy against the government
By Mumtaz AlviMarch 28, 2022
Type of plot that Bhutto faced being hatched: PM
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Imran Khan Sunday likened himself to former premier and PPP founder chairman Zulfikar Ali Bhutto (ZAB), who was, what he claimed, hanged for attempting to give the country an independent foreign policy.
He waved a letter to a large public rally here, and disclosed that his government had been threatened in writing, claiming “we know from which places an attempt is being made from outside to change the government, and also mount pressure on us for adopting an independent foreign policy”.
The PM, clad in white shalwar-qameez, made the revelation during his around 105-minute address to the PTI’s ‘Amr bil Ma’roof public meeting, here at the Parade Ground. Imran Khan said he knows the forces, which brought the “killers of Bhutto, and his party together” — a reference to rival opposition parties, PMLN and PPP, who have joined hands against his government.
The PM lamented governments were changed in Pakistan with the connivance of people present in Paksitan. The parties of Fazlur Rehman and fugitive Nawaz Sharif at that time had started a movement against Zulfikar Ali Bhutto. Such circumstances were created, which led to hanging of Bhutto, the PM said.