He remains in good spirits. He was sentenced, on saturday, for failing to declare money earned from selling state gifts, while he was in office. After the verdict he was taken from his home directly to prison. He has denied the charges. Lets speak to mian hammad azhar,|mran khan s aide and formerfinance and energy minister. Thank you forjoining us on the programme. Tell us a little bit more about the situation with the former Prime Minister. You say that or his lawyers say they are deplorable conditions but he remains in good spirits. Conditions but he remains in good sirits. ,. ,. , spirits. That is correct. Hes not been given spirits. That is correct. Hes not been given because spirits. That is correct. Hes not been given because that spirits. That is correct. Hes noti been given because that former spirits. That is correct. Hes not been given because that former Prime Ministers in pakistan are entitled to. Hes being held in a cell with open toilets, that is an unclean, unhygienic a
listing each item individually in his election commission return. would you say that at the core of this there is something wrong in the system? when imran kong was in power those before him received the same treatment. now imran khan is being treated in exactly the same way. he stayed silent when his opponents were going through the exact same thing. were going through the exact same thin. ~ ., ., , ., thing. well, imran kahn s had multi-billion thing. well, imran kahn s had multi-billion rupee thing. well, imran kahn s had multi-billion rupee corruption j thing. well, imran kahn s had - multi-billion rupee corruption cases multi billion rupee corruption cases which most were not made by imran khan himself they were actually initiated in the years before imran khan became prime minister. imran khan became prime minister. imran khan on the other hand has been disqualified and imprisoned not for non declaration of any assets but in fact for declaring in a different format than the
two familiar names formally ventured into 2012 this week. former house speaker newt gingrich, an old political hand, declared his well-known presidential ambitions the new millennium way, on facebook and twitter. another no-surprise-here candidate, texas congressman ron paul went official on morning tv. officially not running former arkansas governor mike huckabee who made his non-declaration on his fox tv show yesterday. former governor mitt romney hasn t done his 2012 paperwork but he s done years of groundwork preparing for his second presidential bid. he devoted a thursday speech trying to repair potential achilles heel similarities between the health care plan he started in massachusetts and president obama s plan. in other 2012 hints, former u.s. ambassador to china and former governor of utah jon huntsman sat down for a big interview with time magazine and indiana
money, there will be no increase in the debt limit. boehner wants $2 trillion in budget cuts before he agrees to raising the debt ceiling. and then there s the democrat-controlled senate. we shouldn t be drawing lines in the sand. we should be willing to work together. treasury secretary tim geithner says the u.s. could hit its $14.3 trillion debt limit tomorrow but he can keep the country out of default until august. so there is time. what they really lack on capitol hill is common ground. today republican risk, reward and rhetoric with senate republican leader mitch mcconnell and paul ryan, chairman of the house budget committee. then presidential politics as the field expands with clinton, press secretary joe lockhart and bush speech writer michael gerson. and challenges in the mideast and libya with dennis blair and john negroponte. i m candy crowley and this is state of the union. despite fears a debt crisis will undermine the u.s. economic recovery a