PTI slams Musharraf’s diatribe against Imran Khan

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* PTI central information secretary calls former president ‘a habitual liar’

Staff Report

LAHORE: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Central Information secretary Omar Sarfraz Cheema brushed aside General ® Pervez Musharraf’s diatribe against Imran Khan as ‘a pack of lies’ and ‘a figment of his warped imagination’.

In a press statement issued on Sunday, he termed Musharraf as ‘a habitual liar’ with ‘a nerve for selling ridiculous fiction as facts’. Cheema described Imran Khan as ‘the most credible, supremely patriotic, unbendingly honest and upright political leader of Pakistan’. Cheema said that the very notion of a principle-minded Imran Khan vying to curry favour with a former dictator merely to ascend to power is ‘utterly absurd’. He said such absurdities could be only be expected from one who earned universal ridicule for his ‘tasteless autobiography replete with flagrant inaccuracies and blatant lies’. Cheema went on to remind Musharaf his own statement of August 2004, in which the former military dictator had revealed Imran as his preferred prime ministerial candidate – a fact affirmed by General Ihtishaam Zameer.

“The whole tenure of Musharraf was marked by duplicity and hypocrisy of the worst form. He embezzled billions of rupees of national exchequer on the so-called accountability drive, only to arrive at a self-serving deal in the form of NRO with the same corrupt politicians whom he had set out to hold accountable,” said Cheema. “Imran Khan and his party spearheaded the struggle against his dictatorial rule for eight long years and held aloft the banner of supremacy of constitution and independence of judiciary while Musharraf was at the pinnacle of power and the so-called champions of democracy were living in self-imposed exiles,” he added.