Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf founding chairman Imran Khan has turned down the military’s demand to apologise for the May 9 events and distanced his party from the violent protests that broke out in the country last year soon after his arrest.
“Why should I tender apology, it should be sought from me,” the deposed prime minister said during an informal conversation with journalists in Rawalpindi’s Adiala Jail on Wednesday. The PTI founder was responding to a question related to DG ISPR Tuesday’s press conference wherein he demanded “those involved in the May 9 violent protests to apologise” and shun politics of “anarchy” before holding any dialogue.
He said that he was ready for any inquiry into his party’s 2014 sit-in “I will be happy if I am presented before the inquiry committee.