Imran Khan wants IMF should stop aid for Pakistan over rigged elections: Ali Zafar

RAWALPINDI, Feb 22 (SABAH): Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) founder Imran Khan will write a letter to the International Monetary Fund (IMF), demanding it to stop their support for Pakistan due to rigged elections, party leader Senator Barrister Syed Ali Zafar announced on Thursday.

“Imran Khan will issue a letter to IMF. The charter of IMF, EU, and other organisations stipulates that they can function or provide loan to a country only if there’s good governance,” Syed Ali Zafar told media persons after meeting Khan at Rawalpindi’s Adiala Jail.

Syed Ali Zafar claimed that the “most important section” of their charter is that a country should be democratic. “If there’s no democracy, then neither can these institutions function in those countries, nor should they.”

“The basic pillar of a democracy is a free and fair election. However, the entire world saw how the nation’s mandate was stolen. Let’s leave pre-poll rigging aside, in post-poll rigging, victory was snatched from PTI’s winning candidates.”

Senator Zafar said the people’s vote was stolen in the darkness of the night. He said going to the IMF for a bailout package would be detrimental to the country without conducting the audit of the election results.

He also lamented that permission has not been granted to meet Khan’s wife Bushra Bibi, who is incarcerated at the Bani Gala residence declared as sub-jail.