Imran does not want elections, rather he wants selection again: Marriyum.

LAHORE -- Firing fresh broadside at Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf Chairman Imran Khan, Information Minister Marriyum Aurangzeb has said that the deposed prime minister is not interested in elections in the country, adding that he actually wants his selection as premier again.

Addressing a press conference on Sunday, she said that Khan's 'tamashas' (dramas) of cypher, long march, avoid jail campaign, elections, Zaman Park, attacks and threats to courts have reached their conclusion.

The people of Pakistan remember his tenure as a 'black chapter' in the history of the country as they are paying the price of Imran Khan's four-year misrule which was marked by corruption, incompetence and inefficiency.

Khan did not have political issues, rather he is facing psychological problems, the info minister said, adding that last year Khan concocted a fake narrative of a foreign conspiracy for toppling his government which was accepted by followers of his cult and 'PTI social media gang' working from abroad claimed that imported government had been installed in Pakistan.

The narrative of international conspiracy started from cypher, blaming the United States, Nawaz Sharif, Shehbaz Sharif and then Punjab caretaker Chief Minister Mohsin Naqvi. Those who accused the US of conspiracy are now tendering apologies and seeking pardon, she said, ridiculing the PTI chairman and his party.

She wondered how the followers of PTI still believe in the baseless allegations of Imran Khan. The federal minister further said that yesterday the people of Lahore completely rejected Imran Khan, and the PTI had to use old pictures and even Minar-e-Pakistan was removed from the pictures.

On failure of the cypher narrative, she said, Imran Khan started a long march which was doomed while giving it a religious touch; the Jail Bharo (court arrest) movement was started after the long march disaster during which journalists and police personnel were martyred.

She said Imran Khan is always ready to lead and address political rallies and marches but when the courts summoned him, he starts making excuses for his old age, injury, diseases and above all threat to life.

The minister went on to say that the ousted prime minister, who refused to go to court, went to Minar-e-Pakistan to address the rally. He was neither sick, nor an elderly person, nor he faced any threat to life when going to address the rally but he will not go to court to face cases of foreign funding, Toshakhana and Tyrian...

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