Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan termed Information Minister Parvaiz Rasheed resignation as a scapegoat and demands much more.
Khan talking to reporters outside his Bani Gala residence lambasted at the information minister said, “The nation wants the sacrifice of a horse, not a mule.”
On Saturday, Rasheed was asked to step down as the government was forced to launch a probe into Dawn’s story.
“Rasheed could not speak without a signal from “his masters” to do so. He could not dare to anything on his own. He just obeyed instructions,” Khan added.
“People are not ready to accept the sacrifice of an associate,” he said. “We want to know who was the one from the ‘royal family’ who directed this entire drama.”
He also reiterated his ongoing criticism of the government for its actions in the days leading up to his scheduled November 2 protest, and said it has “gone out of its way” to restrain the party from exercising its constitutional right of protest.
He also said the Islamabad police did not spare female protesters of PTI but there was no Section 144, an order which bans public gatherings, for Defa-e-Pakistan Council.
Khan said the credibility of judiciary was at stake as, according to him, the government was violating laws and had committed contempt of court.
“I want to tell the judiciary that it is their trial, not mine.”
A day earlier, Khan had said the country’s institutions for justice are controlled by “a corrupt leader”.
“What will people think? You passed orders but everyone can see what is going on,” he said, in an apparent reference to shipping containers that have blocked routes to Islamabad despite an order by the Islamabad High Court to keep the city open.
