By Our Correspondent
NAROWAL: On behalf of his “foreign backers,” Imran Khan has been plotting to split the Pakistani Army, according to Federal Minister for Planning and Development Ahsan Iqbal, who made the statement here on Sunday. Speaking at a flag-raising ceremony attended by PML-N local leaders and employees, a former interior minister claimed that the chairman of Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf attempted to attain “real independence” by disobeying army regulations. He asserted that Imran Khan was engaging in “political sabotage” in Pakistan by accepting cash from Israel and India. He promised that the Quaid Nawaz Sharif party would return to Pakistan before the ensuing general election.
The PML-N, according to Mr. Iqbal, has always maintained that the institution of the army should stay out of politics. He cited the PTI’s 2013 agitation that led to the postponing of the Chinese president’s visit to Pakistan as evidence that Imran began holding sit-ins and strikes throughout the country whenever the situation in Pakistan improved and the country’s economy started heading towards development. He asserted that Imran Khan had ruined the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) project. He asserted that the nation was crushed under the weight of its external debt as a result of the PTI government plundering the country’s coffers and releasing the inflation and poverty genie.
He claimed that although limits were put in place after Pakistan conducted nuclear tests in 1998, the situation was not as dire as it had been under Imran’s rule. Ahsan Iqbal called Imran’s campaign slogan of “true freedom” the worst joke on the nation and claimed it could not be attained by damaging the nation’s economy, putting it in financial crisis, or scrapping initiatives like CPEC. He believed that growing the economy and paying off the country’s foreign debt were the only ways to achieve true independence. He criticised Imran’s claims that he was “saying no to slavery,” and claimed that the PTI chairman was dispatching envoys to the US and asking with the American ambassador to arrange a meeting with President Biden.
He asserted that it was obvious the PTI had no candidates in the nine National Assembly constituencies if Imran Niazi was running in the by-election. Imran Khan is currently asking for a “NRO” in the foreign funding matter, according to Ahsan Iqbal, but “we will not give it to him.” He asserted that despite Imran’s repeated requests for reconciliation and resolution of the foreign funding case, it will not be concluded at this time.
“You stole a huge sum of money. You encourage political upheaval by taking money from Pakistan’s enemies. You have argued against using government agencies. Imran Khan, you must answer to this “He advised. Imran Khan only ever unveiled one “big project” to the country: the politics of abuse.
