Imran asks Chief Election Commissioner to resign after audio leaks

LAHORE, Sep 26 (SABAH): Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf (PTI) chief Imran Khan said on Monday that Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Sikandar Sultan Raja would have resigned “if he had any shame” in lieu of the Prime Minister Office (PMO) audio leaks that surfaced on social media a day earlier.

While addressing a ceremony at Government College University Lahore, Imran said “now new audio leaks have come forward where the chief election commissioner has been proven to be the house-servant of Nawaz Sharif”.

The PTI chief claimed that in another audio leak the CEC apparently asks the PML-N supremo “who should be disqualified” and that he will “disqualify Imran in the Toskhakhana case”. “If he [CEC] had any shame, he would resign,” taunted Imran, “but he has no shame. That is why we will have to get him to resign.”

Imran said that the country’s “biggest fraudster” is returning to Pakistan, in an apparent jab at Pakistan Mulsim League- Nawaz (PML-N) leader Ishaq Dar, who is expected to take over after PML-N leader Miftah Ismail stepped down from the post of finance minister on the other day.

Imran also said that “there is more that will be revealed in the audio leaks” and asked the audience to “wait for the coming episodes”.

 “I have declared jihad against these thieves,” added Imran as he asked “everyone to prepare themselves”. “As long as I am alive, I will fight them and God willing, I will win,” he vowed.