Karachi: Imran Khan, head of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf political party, on Sunday alleged former prime minister Nawaz Sharif of “protecting India’s interests” and attempting to damage the credibility of soon to be held July 25 general elections. The former prime minister is presently serving jail sentence over charges of corruption.

The 65-year-old cricketer-turned politician addressed a poll rally in Karachi. During his speech, he claimed that a “big game” is being played by the former PM others are behind this “conspiracy” to influence the general elections.

“Now when he knows that his party is facing certain defeat in the elections, he is saying the elections are going to be rigged,” Mr. Khan said.

“Even the Indian media is now beating out the narrative that the elections will be rigged. It is a big conspiracy against the state of Pakistan,” he added.

According to Mr. Khan claim, Nawaz Sharif had always made an attempt to bring defamation to the Pakistan armed forces and institutions.

“He tried to do this through the Dawn leaks and then by claiming that the Pakistani establishment was behind the Mumbai terror attacks,” Mr. Khan said.

He further claimed that the international powers including India the neighbor, want a weak government in Pakistan.

“The international establishment who are creating doubts about the elections want a weak government which can be controlled like robots but that will not happen now because the people of Pakistan wanted true democracy and the wind of change would be seen in the elections,” he said.

As the elections as not far away, this was PTI Chief’s last election public rally in the capital city of Karachi as he prepares to contests from a crucial constituency of the city to gain a national assembly seat.

The former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif aged 68 and his daughter Maryam aged 44, are as of now undergoing jail terms of ten years and seven years respectively in the Jail of Adiala in Rawalpindi. They were awarded the jail terms after an accountability court here convicted them on July 6 over the issue of their family owning four luxury flats in London.

Pakistan has seen troubled times and a weak democracy from the times military took over the country under General Musharraf. And then elections were held for a prime minister to be elected. Nawaz Sharif was in power since then. Thereafter there were allegations of corruption and other cases on him. But most recently, the Judicial system worked fairly to award him the jail sentence. And even his daughter was proved to be guilty of such misdeeds.

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