Imran Khan filed an application in a Pakistani court here on Monday against Interior Minister Rana Sanaullah for calling the former premier an “enemy” of his party. Sanaullah, who is very close to former premier and London-based PML-N supremo Nawaz Sharif, said when the ruling party feels that its existence is under threat, it will go to any extent against its chief political rival.
In an interview with a private TV channel, the senior leader of PML-N termed the ex-PM and Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf chief an “enemy” of his party and said Khan will be “treated like that”. “Either he will be eliminated from the political arena or us. He has now taken the country’s politics to a point where only one of the two can remain — PTI or PML-N,” Sanaullah said on Saturday.
The PTI said it has never witnessed in the past that a ruling party openly declared eliminating a popular leader of Pakistan. Seeking the Islamabad High IHC’s intervention on this issue, Khan has requested the court to block his arrest and prevent the respondents from acting on their “plans”, according to The Express Tribune newspaper.