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PM Khan tells PPP, PML-N leaders to 'return nation's money' if they want reprieve

Prime Minister Imran Khan on Saturday, while addressing a rally in Khan Garh, Ghotki, said the government will not let PML-N and PPP leaders off the (accountability) hook "until they gave the country's money back".

"This country will not forgive you. You have only one route: give the country's money back and we will leave you be," the premier said.

Prime Minister Khan said that earlier the Sharif brothers — former prime minister Nawaz Sharif and Leader of Opposition in the National Assembly Shahbaz Sharif — used to say that former president Asif Ali Zardari was corrupt; meanwhile, Zardari and his son, Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, used to say that the brothers were corrupt.

"Today, both are trying to come together to 'save democracy'," the premier said.

He said he wanted to "challenge" the two opposition parties to do whatever they wanted to do, but the government would not back down from holding them accountable.

Khan said that his opponents "can go ahead with train marches", a reference to the PPP's "Caravan-i-Bhutto", and "can also come to D-Chowk in Islamabad to stage a sit-in ('dharna'). "The government's containers are ready," he offered.

"We will provide you food in the containers," the premier said, saying he will see how long they can hold their ground.

"We [the PTI] held a dharna for four and a half months — not for our theft, [but] for the country's democracy and for free and fair elections."

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