Imran wanted to get all opposition leaders disqualified, alleges minister.

KARACHI -- Federal Minister for Power Khurram Dastagir has said the then prime minister Imran Khan had 'fascist plans' to extend his rule for 15 years by getting the entire leadership of opposition parties disqualified.

The Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz leader claimed he had the information that Mr Khan had decided to get all the opposition leaders, right from PML-N president Shehbaz Sharif to Ahsan Iqbal, Shahid Khaqan Abbasi and all others, disqualified by the end of this year. In this scenario, it was visible that the former premier with the connivance of powers that be wanted to clean sweep the entire opposition leadership, he alleged.

Lending strength to his claim, the minister recalled the former prime minister had also announced that the services of 100 judges would be hired to expedite cases against his political opponents.

Mr Dastagir expressed these views during a private TV show while responAding to the question about what had prompted his party to accept the country's...