Zardari blasts Khan for controversial statement

Islamabad: Former President Asif Ali Zardari Thursday denounced former Prime Minister Imran Khan’s statement in which he had said Pakistan will break in to three pieces if the establishment does not take the right decision.

In an interview with a private television channel, the former premier said the “actual problem here is of Pakistan and establishment. If the establishment does not take the right decision, then I will give it in writing that they will be destroyed, and the armed forces will be the first ones to be destroyed.”

Imran Khan warned that once the country is destroyed, it will default, and the international world will ask Pakistan to move towards denuclearisation — as Ukraine did in the 1990s.

Following Imran Khan’s assertion, PPP co-chairman Asif Zardari condemned it and directed the party to hold a protest against Imran Khan across the country.

“This language is not of a Pakistani, but of Modi as no Pakistani could talk of tearing Pakistan into pieces,” he added.

Zardari told Imran Khan that power is not everything, “be brave and do politics by standing on your own feet.”

“The desire to tear Pakistan into pieces cannot be fulfilled until we and our decedents are alive, Pakistan will exist till the day of judgement,” vowed Asif Zardari.