Imran confident of beating N in polls

LAHORE PTI Chairman Imran Khan has said the PML-N leadership was indirectly supporting the PPP government. Addressing a press conference at a local hotel here Sunday on the launch of 'Jaag Utho Pakistan, a virtual campaign on the internet to motivate the youth against oppressive rule, he suggested the PML-N should resign and come out of the Parliament if it was not playing a fixed match. PTI leaders including Omar Sarfraz Cheema, Ahsan Rasheed, Dr Yasmin Rashid Salomi Bokhari and others were present on the occasion. Khan said his party would lead a sit-in on the Constitution Avenue from Iftar to Sehr on every weekend to protest against non-implementation of court verdicts, price hike, loadshedding of gas and electricity, drone attacks, worsened law and order and rampant corruption in government institutions. He said the PTI would continue its struggle for the independence of judiciary and implementation of its orders. He said his party would launch a campaign on Facebook on August 14 to mobilise youth. Referring to the recent campaign of party membership through SMS, he said over 125,000 youngsters joined the PTI in the last three days. He hoped his party would sweep the next general elections and Lahore would turn into PTIs stronghold. The PTI will beat Nawaz Sharif even if he plays with own umpires, he said, adding that the people of Pakistan would stand by the Supreme Court, which was struggling to net the 'big fish to uphold the rule of law without any discrimination. Calling the political leaders mafia, he said the PTI would neither join hands with any of these parties nor accept corrupt and opportunist politicians in its fold. About PML-Ns announcement of waging a war for the implementation of court verdicts, he said: The Sharifs should stop fooling the masses. The PTI will never join hands with the PML-N, which has ditched the APDM on the issue of Supreme Court.

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