ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan has said that Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP)’s Co- Chairman Asif Ali Zardari and Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif are the ‘kings of corruption’.

Addressing a press conference at his residence Bani Gala today (Thursday), Khan said that PPP should follow Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM)’s ‘minus-one’ formula.

“PPP should take a step like MQM and apply formula-one by eliminating its co-chairman Asif Zardari,” said Imran Khan.

Khan also slammed PPP Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari’s hypocrisy  and said that Bilawal publicly called Nawaz Sharif a friend of Modi and a thief and yet he was gladly shaking hands with the prime minister in the parliament.

“He [Bilawal] cannot be such a hypocrite or a big politician,” PTI chief said, adding: “I was accused of being a non-patriotic politician. Are these people patriotic whose children are living abroad and they are making money in Pakistan.”

Imran Khan also defended his party’s decision to pull out of the joint session of Parliament convened to discuss the Kashmir issue and escalation of ties with India and said that most of his party men were in favour of attending the session, but he overruled the decision.

“First of all, Nawaz Sharif has been proved a criminal according to the Panama Leaks. I am, therefore, not prepared to accept a criminal as our prime minister,” he said.

“Secondly, Shah Mahmood Qureshi had already attended the meeting of parliamentary leaders, which had given a strong message of solidarity and unity,” he pointed out.

Khan said that the speeches made in the joint session had in fact harmed the unity expressed by party’s leaders.

He announced that PTI would shut down Islamabad on October 30.