Former Prime Minister and Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan on Sunday rebutted a news article stating that he reportedly removed incumbent Army Chief General Asim Munir from the post of the Inter-Services Intelligence chief when he sought to “investigate allegations of corruption around his wife and her circle” during his government’s tenure.
“The article claims that I had made Gen Asim resign as DG ISI because he had shown me my wife Bushra begums corruption cases.This is completely false,” Imran Khan said while sharing the news article on his twitter handle.
“Neither did Gen Asim show me any proofs of my wife’s corruption nor did I make him resign because of that,” he stated categorically.
However, Minister for Information and Broadcasting Marriyum Aurangzeb called Imran Khan a “liar” as he failed to inform the masses about a reason behind unceremonious removal of Asim Munir from the post of ISI chief during the tenure of PTI.
“If this wasn’t the reason , what was ? Do tell ! The only reason you can’t give another reason because you know that this is the real reason. LIAR,” the minister said while responding to Imran Khan’s tweet.
The government spokesperson earlier in a news conference stated that Imran Khan launched the protests and was bent upon creating a civil unrest as he knew that the “powers that be” had irrefutable evidence against his and Bushra Bibi’s corruption.
She said Imran Khan was trying to drag the institutions into politics for saving his skin in corruption cases.
“The complete record of Imran Khan’s corruption is with institutions and that is why he is calling them out and criticizing them regularly,” the minister said while talking to Saleem Safi, host of Geo News programme Jirga.
She said institutions did not want to interfere in politics, but it was Imran Khan who criticized them all the time and had been making all-out efforts to drag them into politics.
She called Imran Khan an “ungrateful person” who always ditched his benefactors. Whether it was former army chief Qamar Javed Bajwa, Jahangir Tareen, Aleem Khan or the late Naeemul Haq, Imran Khan followed the same pattern in cases of all these people.
She alleged that Imran Khan offered lifetime extension to the former army chief, which was declined. However, Imran Khan resorted to using inappropriate words for him in public gatherings on his refusal.
Marriyum said Imran Khan was a fascist disguised under a political cloak, inflicting irreparable damage to the country. His workers burnt schools, state buildings, ambulances and mosques after his arrest in a corruption case.
It was not a public reaction but an armed assault on public and private properties as part of a premeditated plan, she said, vowing stern action against those involved in vandalism after the arrest of Imran Khan.
