Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf founder Chairman Imran Khan said on Saturday it was wrong to say that the former spymaster General (retd) Faiz Hameed was the mastermind of attacks on government and military installations on May 9.
Speaking to reporters at Adiala Jail, Rawalpindi, he said that PTI did not hatch conspiracies, in fact, it was the victim of these conspiracies.
Elaborating further, he said the first conspiracy hatched against the party was that the former army chief General Qamar Javed Bajwa removed General Faiz from his post at the insistence of former prime minister Nawaz Sharif.
The second, he went on to say, was that General Bajwa hired Hussain Haqqani to lobby against the PTI government in the USA for $35,000. “And that led to the cipher from US official Donald Lu which resulted in the ouster of our government in April 2022,” he said, adding, “The third intrigue was that we had requested the then chief justice of Pakistan for an inquiry into the cipher. But unfortunately, we were implicated in that case instead.”
“The May 9 violence was choreographed to cause damage to the PTI. The case, however, can be solved within an hour,” Imran said.
The fourth conspiracy, Imran said, was when the mandate the people had given to the PTI in the February 8 general elections was stolen from it.
“At the moment there is only one-way traffic in the country,” the former prime minister said, adding all this had been done to give an extension to Chief Justice of Pakistan Justice Qazi Faez Isa.
“Now the same CJP has deprived the PTI of three seats in assemblies.”
“I want to tell the establishment that it, in order to crush the PTI, is bent upon destroying the country. The truth of the matter is that it is the country, not the PTI, which you are destroying.”
