Peshawar: Pakistan’s Punjab government has approved the membership of more situations against jailed former prime minister Imran Khan and his group men for inciting dislike against the express organizations, specifically the strong Pakistan Army. The 71-year-old past cricketer-turned-politician has been in prison since August last year after being convicted in some of the roughly 200 situations slapped on him since his resignation in April 2022.
” The Punjab Cabinet of Maryam Nawaz has approved legal action against Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf ( PTI ) founder leader Imran Khan and his other party leaders for building a hate narrative against the state institutions,” Punjab Information Minister Azma Bokhari told a press conference after a cabinet meeting on Friday evening.
The minister said Khan is trying to become Mujeebur Rehman ( of Bangladesh ). Mujeebur Rehman had safely led the Bangladeshi democracy movement against Pakistan. He became the first prime minister of Bangladesh in 1971.
Bokhari said those who meet Khan in Adiala Jail Rawalpindi even follow him in spreading love against the organizations.
The Punjab state is likely to reserve Khan and his near partners for writing an article in a European newspapers on a problem from a journalist, she said.
Earlier this month, in an article in The Telegraph paper, Khan alleged that the military creation, under the immediate assistance of Gen Asim Munir, the captain of military staff, has tried every tactic to kill his party’s presence from the social environment of Pakistan but failed.
” The oppression, torture and denial of our election symbol have been extensively documented, but nothing has worked for the military and the powerless civilian leadership acting as its puppets. Pakistan’s general elections on February 8 2024, showed the utter failure of their design.
” With no single electoral symbol in a country where the vast majority of voters are guided by a party symbol, the people came out and voted overwhelmingly for candidates supported by my party, the PTI, despite standing as’independents ‘ with a host of diverse symbols,” he wrote.
Khan further said this democratic revenge by the people of Pakistan against the agenda of the military establishment not only was a national defiance by the people but also a complete rejection of the official state narrative of May 9 2023, when PTI supporters were falsely accused- as a pretext for a crackdown- of attacking military installations.
” Instead of accepting the people’s mandate, the military establishment went into a fit of rage and electoral results were manipulated to bring into power the losers. The constitutional functioning of state institutions must be restored, the military establishment has done all they could against me. All that is left for them is to now murder me.
” I have stated publicly that if anything happens to me or my wife, Gen Asim Munir will be responsible. But I am not afraid because my faith is strong. I would prefer death over slavery,” Khan wrote.
