MULTAN: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf chief Imran Khan has devised a
proper system to scrutinize everyone who joins his party, new entrant
and political heavyweight Javed Hashmi has said.
Speaking at a
media briefing that he arranged in Multan to explain his reasons for
joining the PTI, the former PML-N stalwart said that he was in politics
to serve them.
Defending Imran’s strategy of welcoming senior
political personalities in his recently-popular party, Hashmi said that
if PML-N can accept all PML-Q members except the Chaudhry brothers then
why Imran can’t allow people from other parties to join his PTI.
Hashmi,
whose former party has blamed him of ‘selling’ himself to Imran, said
that it was time that politicians stopped the blame game. “We have to
end this blame game because it will never promote democracy in Pakistan.
Our basic aim should be cleansing of politics in Pakistan.”
He
said that the PML-N and its leadership still hold a special place in his
heart. “I will never forget Nawaz Sharif’s righteous stand for
democracy in the country.” Talking about the 2013 elections, he said
that PTI was fully prepared and stood a great chance at the next polls.
Responding to a question about Pakistani neuroscientist Dr Aafia
Siddiqui who is jailed in the US, he said that America ignores all
pleas. “They do whatever they want and pick up anybody from anywhere.”
“I
know that in many issues, the government’s hands are tied and it is
helpless.”But Aimal Kasi [Pakistani who shot CIA officials in the US in
1993] was hanged during the PML-N’s government and we not even
informed,” he said. Online
