PPP Senator Raza Rabbani has said incarcerated PTI chief Imran Khan’s letter to the International Monetary Fund is a “direct invitation for foreign intervention in Pakistan’s internal affairs”.
A day earlier, PTI lawyers said Imran would write to the IMF urging it to call for an independent audit of the Feb 8 general elections before it continues talks with Islamabad. In a statement today, Rabbani condemned the move and said that it appeared to “be an agenda point to try to make Pakistan default, when not in power”.
“No international monetary agency or foreign governments have the right to interfere in the internal affairs of our country,” he said, adding that Pakistan was not a “lackey state but a sovereign country”.
On the other hand PTI leader Barrister Gohar Khan has clarified that the letter party chief Imran Khan intends to write to the International Monetary Fund would not harm the country and was in the interest of Pakistan. “We will never do anything that is against the interest of Pakistan, we will play every role to improve the economy,” he said. “When the letter comes out [in the public], you will see.”
Barrister Gohar further asserted that the PTI would never indulge in any act that would harm the sovereignty of the country. “We will do everything that will improve the rule of law,” he added.
“Any step taken by the PTI will never be against Pakistan’s state, public, government or democracy […] Khan has said this country is ours and its institutions are ours,” Gohar said. In response to a question, he said the letter would be shared with the public later in the evening.—INP
