Pakistan: “I’ll not leave the Army chief,” Imran threatens Gen Asim Munir
Virendra Pandit
New Delhi: “If anything happens to my wife, I will not leave Asim Munir as long as I am alive,” said former Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Ahmed Khan Niazi from behind bars in his latest rant against the Army chief whom he holds responsible for all his problems.
Bushra Bibi, 49, was convicted in a corruption case as well as in the case of illegal marriage with Khan, 71, and is currently held in detention at their Bani Gala residence in the suburbs of Islamabad.
According to the media reports, Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) founder Imran Khan on Wednesday alleged that Chief of the Army Staff General Asim Munir was directly responsible for the imprisonment of his wife Bushra Bibi.
The PTI leader, currently lodged at Adiala Jail, hurled allegations at the army chief, according to a long post uploaded on the ex-PM’s official X account.
“General Asim Munir is directly involved in the sentence awarded to my wife,” the cricketer-turned-politician said, adding that the judge who convicted her said that he was forced to make the decision.
“If anything happens to my wife, I will not leave Asim Munir, I will not leave Asim Munir as long as I am alive. I will expose his unconstitutional and illegal steps,” he threatened.
Khan said there was a law of the jungle in the country and all was being done by the “king of the jungle.” “If the king of the jungle wants, all the cases of Nawaz Sharif are forgiven, and when he wants, we are punished in three cases in five days,” he alleged.
Khan also said that the economy would stabilize not through the International Monetary Fund (IMF) loans but by investment. “Due to the law of the jungle, there will be no investment in the country. It is good that Saudi Arabia is coming but investment will come once there is rule of law in the country,” he said.
He also referred to the recently reported clash between police and army in the Bahawalnagar area of Punjab and said that the “police were thrashed” by violating the law, but the IG (Inspector-General of Police) and Viceroy, who oppressed our people, apologized from those who had thrashed the police.
The Viceroy said after the incident that “they (police) are our brothers.” “Such treatment is done to slaves and not to brothers” because those having power thrashed the police and were also forced to apologize.
He also said that PTI was being stopped from contesting in the by-elections. “At this time, standing in front of oppression is Jihad. Our workers have to protect each vote, guard the vote,” the former premier said.
So far the army has not responded to the serious allegations.
Recently, the doctors said, there was no evidence of Bushra Bibi being poisoned in the subjail where she has been kept.
Imran Khan is fighting over 150 cases in different courts and has been convicted and imprisoned in a few of them after he was shunted out of power in April 2022.
