I'm not selected, they are: PM Imran slams opp.

ISLAMABAD -- Prime Minister Imran Khan finally broke his silence on the word 'selected' used for him by the opposition, saying the ones whose political career was 'manufactured in the nursery of military dictatorship' are calling him 'selected'. He was addressing the last sitting of the budget session in the National Assembly, a day after the finance bill was approved by the House amidst strong protests of the opposition parties. Quoting from a book by former US secretary of state Condoleezza Rice, the prime minister said the cases against former prime minister Nawaz Sharif were quashed at the behest of the US during the tenure of former military strongman, General Pervez Musharraf.

'The Americans collaborated to have the NRO [National Reconciliation Ordinance] signed' because it was in their interest, he said, adding that Rice's account depicted that the opposition who calls him selected now was nurtured in the hands of the establishment. He said her account showed that 'those talking about 'selected' were themselves manufactured in the nursery of military dictatorship'. Imran was addressing an empty house after the opposition boycotted the session over a ruling by the...