ISLAMABAD, June 16(ABC): Former prime minister and Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) chairman Imran Khan asked on Wednesday if Director General (DG) Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) Major General Babar Iftikhar would decide whether a conspiracy was hatched or not to overthrow his government.
Responding to queries of general public on social media on Wednesday, he said that this could be his [DG ISPR] point of view but not the decision. “It is said that if there was interference, who will decide whether there was interference or not,” he asked.
Imran Khan said that the Supreme Court should constitute a judicial commission and conduct investigation.
“We asked to hold an open hearing to find out if there was any interference and the conspiracy has awaken our nation,” he said and added the toppling of PTI government was celebrated in India and Israel. People should come out and fight for their rights like a living nation, he said.
The PTI Chairman said that Shehbaz Sharif supported our position that there has been interference, adding that no one can deny the facts on cipher messages. “We have record and our people visited US consulate adding that our allies suddenly began to leave together and a no-confidence motion was submitted on March 8.”
The former PM said, “This threat was meant to remove me and our ambassador sent a cipher which reached me directly, while Donald Lu threatened that the outcome would not be good if Imran Khan was not removed.
Taking a dig at the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP), Imran Khan said that the commission wanted to re-elect Hamza Shehbaz as the Punjab chief minister.
He further alleged that the commission was not filling the vacant reserved seats and were waiting for the Punjab by-elections so that they could carry out “rigging”.
“We know very well that ECP officials are meeting and dealing with Hamza and Maryam for this purpose,” and added that he deemed the development a humiliation for the parliamentary system of governance.