UN group demands release of Imran Khan - Ali Muhammad Khan advices to PM Shehbaz Sharif
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00:00Did Mr. Khan say anything about your best friend Mr. Siraj-ul-Marwad yesterday?
00:06You are my best friend.
00:11I have a relationship with Mr. Marwad.
00:13He is my brother from Pathan.
00:15There is a slight disagreement between us.
00:18But I like him because he is a brave man.
00:21He stood with the party in difficult times.
00:24Did he say anything about him yesterday?
00:27No, he did not say anything about him yesterday.
00:30It is possible that Mr. Khan will meet him soon.
00:32But as far as I know, Mr. Marwad is out of the country.
00:36Yes, he is out of Pakistan.
00:38He can meet Mr. Khan at any time.
00:42He is a lawyer himself.
00:44What is your opinion on this?
00:46Are you surprised that on Eid, Sheikh Rasheed
00:50broadcasted 25 things on TV
00:52and said that she was so unfair to him.
00:54It is a shame.
00:56Then Mr. Fawad, Mr. Ali Zaidi, Mr. Imran Ismail.
01:00In the last 25 to 30 days,
01:02you have started saying all this.
01:04Are you surprised that this happened suddenly?
01:09Yes, a little.
01:10I do not raise anyone's question.
01:13But it is surprising that
01:16all of a sudden, a lot of people have come to the media.
01:18But obviously, they want to come back to their community.
01:22But there are some things that are in the way.
01:25Obviously, some people who have made sacrifices,
01:28they have their own standing.
01:30But those who have been forced,
01:32they have their own compulsion.
01:33So these are the things that Mr. Imran will deal with himself.
01:36So it is a satisfying thing for him
01:38that the man with whom he spent so many years of his life,
01:42the same leader will deal with his case.
01:44Neither Ali Muhammad nor anyone else will do it.
01:46It could be me or someone else.
01:48He has trust in the leader.
01:50As far as Sheikh Sahib is concerned,
01:52I also spoke about this in Parliament,
01:55Mr. Wasim.
01:56Sheikh Sahib has been with Imran Khan for a long time.
01:59And I had also tried for his case.
02:03I thought that he had taken the trouble for Mr. Khan.
02:07But anyway...
02:08You have put a man in front of him for the election.
02:11Sheikh Sahib did not get God,
02:13nor did he get Bisal-e-Sanam.
02:15What did you do?
02:17I raised another point.
02:19At that time, I tried for him.
02:21I thought that he should get the ticket.
02:24But anyway, he could not get it.
02:26There must be some improvement in this.
02:28But I raised another point in the National Assembly.
02:30Mr. Wasim, I am not talking much at the moment.
02:32I think that whether you agree with Sheikh Rashid or not,
02:36but he is a senior politician and has been for two or three decades.
02:39So what he says,
02:41the way it happened with him,
02:43this is a momentous moment for all of us.
02:45That if he is arrested,
02:46if he is in jail,
02:47that is a legal process.
02:48And out of legal process,
02:49the way it happened with him,
02:50I said this in front of the Prime Minister in the National Assembly,
02:53that this is very alarming.
02:55Why did this happen to a senior politician?
02:57Whether he is our ally or not,
02:59whether he is someone's friend or not,
03:01but he is a Pakistani senior politician.
03:04Doesn't he have his respect and legal rights?
03:07Why did this happen to him?
03:08This is for all of us.
03:10Absolutely.
03:11Mr. Ali, this is the last point.
03:13The resolution that has been approved in the US House of Representatives,
03:17in terms of PTI,
03:19do you consider it a victory?
03:23Look, calling it a victory,
03:25I think it is a very big development.
03:30It is a development.
03:31And you cannot connect it with the Cypher case,
03:34because the House of Representatives are not like that.
03:37They are free people.
03:38They talk about themselves.
03:39They also talk against their party.
03:41Their senators,
03:43the members of the House of Representatives,
03:45their congressmen,
03:47they talk about their issues to a great extent.
03:51Like in the Iraq war,
03:53many congressmen voted against the government.
03:55Similarly, in the Afghan war,
03:57many congressmen voted against the sitting government.
04:00So they expressed their opinion on what they felt was wrong in Pakistan.
04:04But the real thing is the Cypher.
04:07Connecting it with this,
04:09the Cypher was a failure of a government.
04:11It was a decision of a government.
04:13It was a threat from a government,
04:15from the State Department,
04:16that if you do not remove this person,
04:18then Pakistan will have to face serious consequences.
04:22Against that, Imran Khan's stand is absolutely not.
04:25That is the real stand.
04:26And that is why we gave a suggestion to the government in the National Assembly,
04:29that if you want to bring a resolution,
04:31then put Cypher in it.
04:33Then we will support you.
04:34There they burn their wings.
04:36There they burn their wings.
04:37Absolutely right.
04:38Mr. Ali, if tomorrow you have a political opponent,
04:40in politics today you are in the government,
04:42tomorrow he is in the government,
04:43if you have a political opponent,
04:45and he thinks that he is being treated unjustly,
04:47and if a resolution comes from another country in his favor,
04:51then you will not say that he is their agent,
04:54he is getting them to intervene in the country.
04:56What greater proof will there be that he is their man,
04:58that he is bringing a resolution from outside in internal matters.
05:01You will not say this,
05:02but you will say that they lobbied and got the resolution,
05:04which is a good thing.
05:07You have to look at it case to case.
05:09You have to look at things case to case.
05:11There was Azadul Fiqar at one time,
05:13the damage he did to Pakistan,
05:15that was another story.
05:17So you cannot mix these things.
05:19You have a dark chapter of MQM,
05:21MQM London, which was operated in this way,
05:23the way it worked in Pakistan,
05:25it was a moment of worry for all of us.
05:27So you have to look at every case case to case.
05:30You have to look at it in the context of your events.
05:32If there is a general issue,
05:34the point that is being raised there,
05:36that is a voice of the parliamentarians there,
05:38who are raising it there.
05:40But the threat from the US government,
05:42this is a different ball game.
05:44This is a different thing,
05:46on which I say even today,
05:48I say even today,
05:50if Shahbaz Sharif understands that
05:52this is interference in Pakistan's internal affairs,
05:54the way Imran Khan has demarched,
05:56you do demarche.
05:58Do you have the courage?
06:00You did not have a loyal minister
06:02on the 5th, 6th, 7th row,
06:04a honourable member of parliament
06:06raised his voice.
06:08You do demarche.
06:10Do you have the courage?
06:12Thank you very much.