LAHORE – PTI Chairman and former prime minister Imran Khan claimed that hispolitical rivals are preparing material, including videos, to launch asmear campaign against him.
He made the claims while talking to actor Shaan Shahid during an interviewon a private news channel.
Responding to a question about involvement of marketing companies inpolitics and fifth generation war, the PTI chief said that such firms havebeen hired by his opponents to launch a character assassination campaignagainst him after Eid.
When someone raises fingers at the corruption of the mafias, they alwayscarry out such personal level attacks, Khan said while calling Sharif mafia“biggest” in the country. He claimed that tapes like former chief justiceof Pakistan Saqib Nisar and late accountability judge Arshad Malik arebeing prepared against him.
He recalled that a smear campaign was also launched against his ex-wifeJemima Goldsmith when she was accused of being part of the “Jewish lobby”.He added that a fake case of exporting antique tiles from Pakistan was alsomade against her.
Lashing out at the government, he said that most of the members incumbentcabinet were out on bail. He said that PM Shehbaz Sharif himself, his sonHamza Shahbaz and PML-N vice president Maryam Nawaz are out on the bail.
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In a democracy, someone who is on bail cannot get any position until answeris given for allegations against him.
While talking about allegations against Farah Khan, the PTI chairman saidthat she was being embroiled in a case only for being a close associate ofhis wife Bushra Bibi.
Khan pointed that Sharifs wanted to assassinate his character through fakematerial as PTI had announced to launch an anti-government march by the endof this month (May).
Saying he was not worried about such maligning campaigns as his opponentshave been involved in such activities in the past.
