ISLAMABAD – Pakistan’s former prime minister, Nawaz Sharif, has damaged a nearly year-long silence since his exile in London promising to expel Imran Khan from office, accusing him of achieving force only through a rigged vote through the country’s tough army.
The 70-year-old former prime minister on Sunday launched an emotional and direct attack on Khan and the army, with whom he has a long and complicated relationship. Khan’s government rejected his comments on Monday, and Information Minister Shibli Faraz said Pakistani opposition united only because he feared cases of ongoing corruption that opposed them.
Sharif, three-time prime minister of Pakistan, first overthrown through a president in 1993 and then through army leader Pervez Musharraf in 1999. A court in 2017 expelled him from the force on corruption charges. Khan, a former cricketer, came here to force in 2018.
“Our fight not only opposes Imran Khan,” Sharif said at an opposition rally at an Islamabad video conference. “Our fight opposes those who installed Imran Khan and manipulated the vote to force an incompetent guy like him to destroy the country. “
Sharif spoke from London, where he has been since last November, when he was released on bail for redress abroad. At the time, a court allowed Sharif to leave the country for four weeks, but he did not return. arrest warrants for Sharif, who in the past was sentenced to seven years in prison for corruption and money laundering following revelations in the Panama Papers.
On Sunday, Pakistan’s opposition parties held an assembly in which they agreed to hold national demonstrations in October to pressure Khan to resign. Sharif was the target of similar mass protests during his reign, which too.
The Pakistani army has ruled the country of 220 million people, directly or for the most part of its history. Successive attempts at prolonged democracy were interrupted by military coups, the last in 1999.
Pakistanis attended the polls in 2008 and elected their first civilian in 12 years.
Meanwhile, Pakistan on Monday presented its new five-day polio immunization crusade in an effort to eliminate debilitating youth disease. Some 40 million young people will be vaccinated through a team of 275,000 polio workers, said Faisal Sultan, who advises Khan on fitness. Issues.
Pakistan and Afghanistan are the two countries in the world where polio is endemic.