LAHORE: Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz President Shehbaz Sharif has compared PM Imran Khan to Adolf Hitler, saying the premier is doing in Pakistan what the Austrian-born politician did in Germany that led to the second world war.

Speaking outside the Supreme Court, where a larger bench is hearing a case on the legality of the NA deputy speaker's ruling on the vote on the no-confidence motion, the erstwhile NA opposition leader equated the premier's decision to have the assemblies dissolved in order to stop the voting on the no-confidence from taking place with that of what transpired under Hitler in the German Riech.

"All eyes are on the Supreme Court right now. We are hopeful for a swift judgment in the matter," he remarked.

Shehbaz said that PM Imran had brought the country on the verge of economic and political collapse. "Pakistan has regressed decades [due to PM Imran]."

He cited the premier's decision to "violate the constitution on April 3, making accusations of treason" while calling for making the decisions off the National Security Committee public.

"Imran Khan is a liar and an absolute fraud," he said, in a spin on the premier's "absolutely not" statement regarding a reported US request to use Pakistani soil for operations in Afghanistan after their departure. The premier, in his many public addresses and televised broadcasts, has claimed that the "foreign-funded conspiracy to oust him from power was due to his desire for an independent foreign policy".

During his media talk, Shehbaz Sharif also expressed gratitude to the Aleem Khan and Jahangir Tareen factions of the PTI for supporting Hamza Shehbaz in the mock assembly session that took place in a Lahore hotel.