Former prime minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi said yesterday that he will reach the provincial capital today and try to register a case against Prime Minister Imran Khan based on the allegations made on TV by former director-general of FIA Bashir Memon.
“I also want to get a case registered. I will go to Shahdara; my FIR will be against PM Imran Khan,” the PML-N leader said in a news conference in Islamabad.
Abbasi noted that Memon had alleged that the Prime Minister told him to register cases against PML-N leader Khawaja Asif under Article 6 of the Constitution. He added the claims made by the former head of the FIA had proven that Khan was “obsessed with the opposition”.
Talking about the sedition case registered against former prime minister and PML-N supremo Nawaz Sharif and other leaders, Abbasi challenged the ministers “distributing certificates of treachery” to becomes witnesses in the case. He also asked where were the ministers distributing those certificates when it came time to defending the case.
The PML-N leader further challenged the ministers to come forward and arrest the suspects in the case, asking the government to do an open trial in front of the people of Pakistan.
Hitting back at the government, Abbasi asked the ministers to focus on solving the problems of the people. Doubting that this would happen, Abbasi drove home that this was why the Pakistan Democratic Movement was formed — to resolve the problems of the people.
Hitting back at the opposition, PTI leader Senator Faisal Javed took aim at the criticism that the government was politically victimising the opposition, stating that multiple cases were registered against Imran Khan by the PML-N government.
“PML-N inflicted worst political revenge on Imran Khan for raising [his] voice in the Panama [case],” said Javed. He added that the whole of PTI was victim to the worst political revenge.
 “PTI activists from across the country were abducted by police,” alleged the PTI leader. He added that teargas shells was fired upon former Khyber Pakhtunkhwa chief minister Pervez Khattak and his cabinet during the 2014 sit-in organised by the PTI.