Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf (PTI) Chairman and former Prime Minister Imran Khan on Saturday said if the international conspiracy to enslave 200 million people of Pakistan succeeds, no prime minister will ever be able to stand up to the US threats.

Addressing a mammoth historic rally at Bagh-e-Jinnah Ground, adjacent to the mausoleum of the Quaid-e-Azam, Khan reiterated that his government was removed through a foreign-instigated regime change ‘conspiracy’ and demanded immediate free and fair elections to let the people decide [whom they want as their prime minister].

Also, Khan demanded formation of a judicial commission to investigate the letter under the supervision of Chief Justice of Pakistan to ascertain the fact.

He said this will remain in my heart, whole life that the courts were opened at midnight to oust me. Shouldn’t the Supreme Court have investigated on this letter, because it was a conspiracy against an elected prime minister of more than 200 million people?

Khan said, “I was imprisoned for an independent judiciary in Musharraf era. Respected judges, when the horse trading was taking place in the parliament and politicians were changing their loyalties for money, why dint you take action against them. Had they not betrayed the people of their respected constituencies, and the constitution of the country? Does our law allow them to be a part of any international conspiracy,” Khan asked.

He said the incumbent Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif will try to use his ‘Sharif mafia doctrine’ against PTI. He will hire his own empires, bureaucrats, make cases against PTI in FIA and NAB, and will try to rig the elections. “Shehbaz Sharif is out on bail, he has been facing cases worth Rs 40 billion in NAB and FIA,” Khan said.

PTI chairman said the ruling ‘mafia’ will also use the foreign funding case as a tool to sideline PTI from the political sphere. But I warn them, “If we were pushed against the wall, you will face dire consequences.”

Khan said “some people informed me, your life is in danger, but I responded them that national integrity, respect, and freedom are more important than my life. It was the matter of future generations of this country. He also touched upon the terms – interference and conspiracy, and asked the rally participants to raise hands and tell if it was interference or a conspiracy.

“There was a conspiracy against this country at a very vast international scale,” Khan reiterated. “I have never been against any country. I am neither anti-European nor anti-American. I am with humanity. My leader is Rehmat-ul-Alameen - a mercy for all human beings. I want friendship with everyone, but not slavery of anyone,” Khan added.

He said Mir Jafar was a traitor. He betrayed Siraj-ud-Daulah together with the British and Bengal fell into the hands of the British. From the Mughal Empire, Bengal was a rich province. But the British imposed taxes on farmers, and deprived the locals of their rights, and eventually the rich province went into poverty.

The PTI chief said he came to know three to four months back that the some politicians who eventually left his party as well as some journalists had started having meetings at the US embassy. He said a journalist told him that “a lot of money is being spent on us”. Thus, the conspiracy had been in the works for a while and then our US ambassador meets Donald Lu.“

Lu says that if the no-confidence motion against Imran Khan will not be successful, then Pakistan will have to go through a difficult time. If no trust motion succeeds, Pakistan will be forgiven. “This is a shameful threat to the elected prime minister of the country of 220 million people. Which country is threatened in this way?

Khan paid thanks to all those who joined Karachi rally, making it a mammoth and historic jalsa. He said the passion and commitment crowd showed in support of an independent sovereign Pakistan and their total rejection of US-initiated regime change bringing to ‘power criminals’, shows where nation stands.

Supporters of the PTI, including women and children, carrying placards inscribed with pro-Imran Khan slogans, continued to throng the venue right from 2nd half. They were chanting slogans in favour of Imran Khan and against his opponents.

Khan also expressed gratitude to the people of the country for supporting the protests against his ouster as the Prime Minister of Pakistan.

Former foreign minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi said as the new government has come into power, inflation has gone up. Imran Khan had held the petrolatum prices, but the incumbent government has unfreeze them.

He said MQM has deceived its voters by joining the PDM. He said the ruling PPP has been neglecting Karachi form the last 14 years? It failed to ensure drinking water, public transport, education, and healthcare facilities.

He said Maryam Nawaz and Bilawal Zardari say the letter was written by the Foreign Office. If they have any doubt, they should call for the formation of a Judicial Commission. We are demanding immediate elections as that is the only way forward.

Former interior minister Sheikh Rashid Ahmed while speaking said t Imran Khan will kick out the incumbent “imported government from power before May 31.”

Addressing the military establishment, Rashid said that they were with him. “Imran Khan has to be brought to the power back… if that doesn’t happen, “we will fill all the prisons.”

Rashid said he had advised Imran Khan four months ago to impose emergency, dissolve all the assemblies and impose governor’s rule in provinces. Sindh Governor Imran Ismail said Imran Khan is the first PM to public this international conspiracy.

This was Imran’s second public address since his ouster as prime minister through a no-confidence motion in the National Assembly last week. He addressed tens of thousands of supporters in Peshawar on Wednesday in a massive show of power.

The former prime minister is at the site of the rally after landing in Karachi earlier Saturday.

Various PTI leaders from Sindh including Imran Ismail, Faisal Vawda, Khurram Sher Zaman, Haleem Adil Sheikh and Firdous Shamim Naqvi addressed the tens of thousands who have been at the venue for hours.

A day ago, Khan asked his supporters to bring the Pakistan flag to the rally, adding that the “fight now was for the country’s sovereignty and real democracy”.

Earlier this week, Khan announced to kick off a campaign against the current government, which he claims has come to power through a “foreign conspiracy.”

As part of the campaign, the PTI has planned public processions throughout the country to mobilise the masses for early elections.

A similar gathering has been announced for Lahore’s Minar-e-Pakistan on April 23.