Should Imran Khan let Nawaz Sharif go abroad for treatment -- Updates Pakistan

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What should Prime Minister Imran Khan do? Should he let Nawaz Sharif go abroad for treatment? Mahi Sheikh brings the Public Opinion on Updates Pakistan

PM Imran says ‘will never give NRO’Prime Minister Imran Khan on Sunday ruled out any possibility of pardon for opposition leaders, saying that any agreement with them would be equivalent to treachery with the country.In a post on Facebook, the prime minister said, “Unless they are held accountable, the country could not be put on track of progress. They just want to hear three words ‘NRO’ from me, which I will not utter as it will amount to treachery with the country.”On Friday, the prime minister in an indirect message to the opposition-led Azadi March protesters, said that he will even send food and other supplies to the participants, but will not grant any concession under the National Reconciliation Ordinance (NRO).Earlier this year, PM Imran had said that he would not give NRO to the opposition leaders regardless of whichever king they get to request for them.
Read also: PM Imran says will give protesters food supplies but not NROThe premier said that he didn't initiate cases against Zardari and Nawaz Sharif. "They were embroiled in old cases. As leaders are accountable in a democracy." he said.
"I can completely understand what the nation is going through. They (opposition) have become billionaires, they have foreign properties," the premier had said.
"If Zardari and Sharif family bring half of their looted wealth in the country dollar will come down against rupee," he added.
Won't give NRO come hell or high water, says PM Imran as Azadi March continuesPrime Minister Imran Khan on Friday lashed out at his political opponents who have gathered in Islamabad with hordes of supporters as part of the Azadi March led by JUI-F chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman.
"I will not give them an NRO (National Reconciliation Ordinance), come hell or high water," said the prime minister while addressing a gathering in Gilgit-Baltistan.
The prime minister, who had set up a seven-member government committee to hold talks with opposition ahead of the march, targeted Rehman, Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz, Pakistan Peoples Party and Mehmood Khan Achakzai in his speech.
He said the PML-N and PPP "know nothing" about Azadi March and that JUI-F's Rehman would offer only one justification that "the march is against the Jews".
He said "the Jews don't need to hatch conspiracies in the presence of Maulana Fazlur Rehman.
"And somebody like Mehmood Khan Achakzai ... what is he doing in Azadi March," he said of the Pashtoonkhwa Milli Awami Party (PKMAP) leader.
Without naming anyone, he said that two sons of a former prime minister were involved in "corruption worth billion of rupees".
"And when they are questioned about their corruption, they say they are not Pakistani citizens," said the prime minister.
The premier, in an apparent reference to the PML-N leadership and their family, said th

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