'I'm the only Pakistani politician who wasn't nurtured at GHQ': PM Imran Khan.

ISLAMABAD -- Prime Minister Imran Khan on Friday said that he is "the only Pakistani politician who was not nurtured at the General Headquarters".

The premier, during an interview with private news channel, said that even PPP's founder and former prime minister, Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto, was a part of a military dictator's cabinet for eight years before coming into power.

The premier, speaking about the country's political system, said that family politics prevails in Pakistan - every party leader's child takes over the reins after their parents.

"However, now, they will not come into power," the prime minister said confidently.

The premier, shedding light on the Pakistan Democratic Movement's (PDM)'s aims, said that they wanted NRO - "and I will not give it to a single person".

The prime minister also spoke about reports surfacing of PDM chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman's various properties. "How did he get those properties?" he asked.

Talking about the past governments, he said that former president Pervez Musharraf had given an NRO to PML-N supremo Nawaz Sharif and let him leave the country.

Speaking about reforms, he said that it was a tough process; and change comes gradually. "But when we try to do reforms, all of them [Oppositon] band together."

"The Opposition had asked me for an NRO in a written statement," he said.

"In a democracy, the prime minister is accountable, whereas these people (the...

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