{"id":50234,"date":"2022-01-25T09:19:43","date_gmt":"2022-01-25T03:49:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kashmir.today\/i-would-be-more-dangerous-if-forced-to-step-down-pakistan-pm-imran-khan-warns-opposition\/"},"modified":"2022-01-25T09:19:43","modified_gmt":"2022-01-25T03:49:43","slug":"i-would-be-more-dangerous-if-forced-to-step-down-pakistan-pm-imran-khan-warns-opposition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/?p=50234","title":{"rendered":"I would be more dangerous if forced to step down, Pakistan PM Imran Khan warns Opposition"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>ISLAMABAD: <\/strong>Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan on Sunday warned the Opposition parties that he would be more dangerous if they forced him to step down as he ruled out granting any concession to them.Responding to a question about the planned long march by the Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM) on March 23 during live calls by the public, Khan said that the move would fail.<br \/>\u201cIf I take to the streets, then you (opposition parties) won\u2019t find any place to hide,\u201d Khan said, adding that he would be more dangerous if forced to step down.<br \/>The PDM \u2013 an alliance of nearly a dozen opposition parties \u2013 was formed against the Pakistan Army\u2019s interference in politics and installing \u201cpuppet\u201d Prime Minister Khan through a \u201cmanipulated\u201d election. PDM President and Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-Fazl head Maulana Fazlur Rahman has announced that the opposition parties would launch a long march towards Islamabad on March 23 to rid the nation of the \u201cincapable and illegitimate\u201d government of Imran Khan.<br \/>Khan also slammed the Leader of the Opposition in the National Assembly Shehbaz Sharif and refused to have any interaction with him. \u201cI get called out for not meeting Shehbaz as he is the Leader of the Opposition.<br \/>(But) I see him as the nation\u2019s criminal,\u201d he said.<br \/>He accused the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) chief of evading cases of corruption by not responding to allegation charges.<br \/>Khan said that the entire Sharif family would end up fleeing to London where Nawaz Sharif and his two sons were already living.<br \/>To a question about the possible return of Nawaz Sharif, he said, \u201cPlease come back, we are waiting for you\u201d but added: \u201cHe will not come back.<br \/>He loves money.<br \/>\u201d Sharif has been living in the UK in self-exile since November 2019. He had gone to London after the Lahore High Court granted him bail for four-weeks to get his treatment abroad. He was serving a seven-year term at Lahore\u2019s Kot Lakhpat jail in a corruption case. Khan said that former military ruler Gen Pervez Musharraf committed the \u201cbiggest sin\u201d by granting NROs (National Reconciliation Ordinances) to the Opposition.<br \/>\u2014PTI<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan on Sunday warned the Opposition parties that he would be more dangerous if they forced him to step down as he ruled out granting any concession to them.Responding to a question about the planned long march by the Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM) on March 23 during live calls by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":50233,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-union-territory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50234","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50234"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50234\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}