Chairman PTI Imran Khan's Exclusive Interview on Al Jazeera

 

https://youtu.be/ZkwfFvQDIkM

sir thank you very much for joining the

program first of all your reaction to

the government deciding to ban rallies

just as your supporters were taking to

the streets

well just to give you the background

the Supreme Court asked the president of

Pakistan to fix an election date that

date is fixed for the 30th of April

so which means 50 days left

so my party decided to do an election

campaign by a rally in Lahore 

today the police had given us

permission they had approved the route

of the the rally

and suddenly this morning the permission

was taken away but not just taken away

we had these heavy contingents of police

and those

people coming to attend a peaceful rally

were hit with

tear gas shells a water cannon with some

chemical in it which people are still

recovering from and then police

discharging these protesters breaking

their cars and so many people got

injured but one  guy ie named Bilal

 was killed in police custody

how do you interpret what you're

describing as this  government back

and forth on the rules about holding a

rally

well

the issue is that the government and all

the 12 parties setting and government

and their backers they're petrified of

Elections because so far in the last 

eight months

out of the 37 by-elections my party has

won 30 out of them

so they're petrified of general

elections they did not want the general

elections we went into the Supreme Court

and the Supreme Court then decided to

hold elections and this date of 30th

April was announced by the president so

we were just going according to our

schedule to start our election campaign

but it is clear that the government does

not want election the parties sitting in

the government they want to get out of

the election so My worry is that the the

idea was to create a Law and Order

situation today

and we really restrained our workers we

call off the rally because we were

scared that there would be people killed

and that would be used as a pretext to

get out of the elections some might

answer that while the government is

perhaps afraid of the upcoming elections

you're also afraid of complying with

judicial rules and police did show up at

your house in Lahore only a few days ago

to arrest you to compel you to show up

in court and you evaded arrest

well let me tell you something so far

there are 76 cases against me

I'm charged for terrorism

charge for blasphemy

charge for sedition

uh

in these 77 cases and these cases have

been made in the last few months so I've

been going from one courtroom to the

other

what happened was when I was shot were

this assassination attempt on me for for

four months my leg wasn't I had three

bullets in my legs so I couldn't go out

of my house

so that's when this started the kisses

mounted they wanted to be me and

apparent courts and so it's just a

question of how do you deal with 77

cases I mean how many court appearances

do you make so it is just one other way

of getting me out of the way to contest

the elections so they want either to

imprison me or to disqualify me because

they are scared that this my party

thanks to the almighty is one of the

most popular party in Pakistan's history

so because they're scared that's why

they're trying to uh find ways either to

get out of Elections or get me out of

the way

there are provincial elections as you

mentioned in April and then national

elections later this year if they both

go ahead as scheduled can you

legitimately run in national elections

if as you say there are 70 plus cases

currently pending against you

all the cases I'm afraid of frivolous

whenever they go into a court of law

these cases will be dismissed now

imagine I just give you an example

there's a terrorism I'm supposed to have

committed I'm sorry to interrupt it it

was the case and if that's why if that's

what you believe why didn't you show up

in court

foreign

because I couldn't show up in court

there were reasons why I had I was

injured so for a lot of time I for four

months I was bed a house ridden I

couldn't really my leg wasn't the

doctors would not allow me to travel and

they knew it but before that I was in

attending all court cases but it's only

since I I was I had I was short that's

when I I didn't attend courts and since

then I have again but the look it's

physically not impossible possible to

attend so many court cases so my lawyers

are trying to sort of work out a

schedule the second problem is security

my life is under threat because the

people who who try to assassinate behind

power and so wave us from the courts we

want protection the court must give us

me protection

before I can apparent Gods because I

repeat

the people who I have nominated in my

assassination attempt are sitting in

power

right and just for our viewers I want to

make clear that they deny that including

the Prime Minister who said he has

nothing to do with the uh with the

shooting against you uh late last year

how do you see the rest of this year

playing out for you with these two

elections coming up

well you know the the biggest concern

right now for my political party is uh

to protect me because uh there's a

severe there's a serious threat to my

life and the reason is I repeat that

these people setting in power are

petrified of losing the elections which

they will which is why they don't want

elections so

the question is how do I campaign and

yet uh have a secure enough environment

question is how do I go to these courts

I made three court appearances and

unfortunately there was just no

protection there

that's why we've approached the court

and said look there must be some police

protection but problem is the people who

are supposed to protect me are the ones

who are trying to kill me

but what's your plan for this year is it

win elections and then and then ride it

back into office and into power in

Islamabad

well the elections national elections

are scheduled for October

but because we were in power in two of

the four provinces we dissolved our our

assemblies here and so uh to hold

elections so the Supreme Court then

ask the president to give a date which

is 30th April and on 30th April we hope

to contest in these two uh provincial

assemblies which we were already in

power

and

what we were hoping was that since it's

65 percent of Pakistan these two

provinces there would be a national

election and the idea for national

election is because our economy has gone

into a tailspin Pakistan is facing the

worst economic crisis in its history so

the idea was to hold elections which

would then bring political stability and

which would then bring economic

stability so this is really why we we

went for elections in our two provinces

Imran Khan former prime minister of

Pakistan thank you very much for coming

on the program today

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