‘Gen Bajwa told me not to call Fazlur Rehman diesel’

Lower Dir (HRNW) “General Bajwa told me not to call Fazlur Rehman diesel,” Prime Minister Imran Khan revealed in a rally in Lower Dir Friday. “I told him its not me who calls him that, the entire nation does.” The premier was addressing his supporters ahead of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa local government polls, where he lashed out at the opposition. Earlier in the day, the PM, along with COAS General Qamar Javed Bajwa, inaugurated the J-10C fighter jets in Punjab’s Attock. On Friday, the premier said that in a recent press conference, “diesel” [Fazl] said when he comes to power he will “fix institutions”. The prime minister claimed the JUI-F leader was referring to the army. “Today, if our enemies haven’t broke Pakistan into pieces, it is because of the army,” he said. “Who are you to fix the army?” The premier then lambasted the opposition, particularly Nawaz Sharif, Asif Ali Zardari, and Fazlur Rehman blaming them of working against national interest. Because of them, Pakistan’s passport has lost its credibility, he said. “All of you, the three stooges, whatever institutions you touched, you ruined them. You attacked the courts, bought judges, you started lifafa journalism.” Referring to Nawaz Sharif, the prime minister denounced him of commencing the politics of “changa manga” while sitting abroad. “He set rates for politicians. He tried to bribe Asif Nawaz Janjua with a BMW car. Will he fix army? He is the man who secretly met Narendra Modi in Nepal’s Kathmandu.” “Or the diesel, who offered an American ambassador help and begged him for a chance. Will he fix the army? Or Asif Zardari, who wrote letters to America pleading them to save him from the army?” Will this bouquet of dacoits fix the army, the PM taunted. “I want to warn today. Everything is going to be crystal clear now. I was praying for a no-confidence motion. Thank god you [the opposition] did this and gave me a chance to knock three wickets from one ball.” The prime minister said that a day before the no-confidence vote, a nation will see a “sea of people at Islamabad’s D-Chowk”. He reasoned the opposition’s behavior with their need for an NRO. “Even if I have to give my life, I won’t spare you,” he warned them. “This is not politics. I’m doing jihad against you.” Mocking the three opposition leaders the prime minister named them “khatarnak diesel, dramaybaz shobaaz and daku Zardari”, continuing to call them the “three mice who are out to catch him”. Concluding the address, he said the nation has two responsibilities: stand with the right, and launch jihad against the bad. “This means Allah has not given us permission to stay neutral. Animals are neutral. They don’t have the ability to differentiate between right and wrong.”