Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) chairman Imran Khan has just finished addressing a mammoth rally at Karachi's Bagh-e-Jinnah, where the Quaid's mausoleum is located.
After his usual song-and-dance of achievements his government in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa can be credited for, and the sad state of economic affairs in the country, he jumped on to address the "very big conspiracy" that his party is being shoved into.
"The Indian media and the parties who are no rigging experts by any means have begun to talk up a storm on the subject. They are saying that the army is rigging the elections.
"They are saying that the Tehreek-i-Insaf is rising in popularity due to the army's favour. Tell me this, have you all been called by the army here today?" the PTI chief asked the crowd.
"Are all the opinion polls which show our party's success also [engineered] by the army?"
Khan then reminded Karachiites that it's not as if he never criticises the armed forces.
"I have called out the army on several occasions. When I said they should not be sent to Waziristan I was labelled 'Taliban Khan'," he said.
