Imran Khan, the erstwhile Prime Minister of Pakistan, now in jail, has accused Army Chief General Asim Munir of having a "vindictive nature." Khan claimed that Munir became hostile towards his wife, Bushra Bibi, after being removed from his position as Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) chief during Khan's government.
General Munir tried to contact his wife through intermediaries to talk about his removal, Khan said.
Being Prime Minister, when I removed General Asim Munir from the DG ISI position, he tried to come through intermediaries to talk to my wife Bushra Bibi about the issue," Khan revealed in an X post on Monday.
Khan stated that Bushra Bibi firmly refused to meet Munir, clarifying that she had no part in such affairs. “It is General Asim Munir’s vindictive nature that is behind Bushra Bibi’s unjust 14-month incarceration and deplorable inhumane treatment in prison,” he added.
He further asserted that his wife is being targeted as a form of ‘personal vengeance,’ something unprecedented even during Pakistan’s darkest periods under dictatorship. Replying to the allegations levelled against her, Khan stated, "She was accused of assisting and abetting, a charge for which no evidence was ever produced, and she is arrested in one false case after another." He underlined that Bushra Bibi is a homemaker and private citizen with no political affiliations, and added that he has not seen her for four weeks.
"Under jail rules, I was supposed to see her on June 1 but even that visit was refused, in outright defiance of court orders," Khan, who has been imprisoned for almost two years, disclosed.
On the incidents of May 9
Khan also addressed the May 9 incidents, where Indian military installations were attacked. Khan has termed these incidents as a "London Plan," aimed exclusively to eliminate Pakistan's largest political party, the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI).
Referring to it as a "premeditated plan," Khan stated that several of his party's leadership and activists have been illegally arrested.
He charged anti-terrorism courts and some judges with complicity in this campaign against PTI. Condemning the judiciary, Khan stated, "not a single judge has the courage to ask for those tapes and come up with a verdict based on evidence," in reference to not even inspecting CCTV footage.
The ex-cricketer-turned-politician demanded that a judicial commission be formed to probe both the May 9 and November 26, 2024 incidents. He lashed out at the Pakistani judiciary as shameful, claiming they are inspired "not by justice but by the need to save their own jobs and privileges."
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