Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf founder Imran Khan on Saturday claimed that some of his party leaders were in contact with the “establishment.”
“These people want to break the party [PTI] and they are the same people levelling allegations against Bushra Bibi,” the former prime minister said in an informal conversation with journalists during the hearing of the Toshakhana reference in Adiala jail.
On restructuring of party committees, Imran Khan said that the committees handle routine political affairs and the core committee will have the final authority in the decision-making.
Amid the widening rifts within the ranks of the PTI with its members being divided on different matters related to the party’s decision, Imran revealed that “some of our people are in contact with his rivals, who wanted to dismantle” the former ruling party.
The PTI founder made the startling revelations while talking to journalists inside the Adiala Jail in Rawalpindi on Saturday.
Pointing towards the “black sheep” within the ranks of the party, the PTI founder said that these people were
accusing Bushra Bibi, his wife, of being an American agent.
Apparently extending an olive branch to his rivals, Khan said: “If I can meet [former chief of army staff] General (retd) Qamar Javed Bajwa twice after he toppled my government then I can meet anyone”.
“At this time, it is my personal issue but Pakistan’s.” Slamming Gen (retd) Bajwa, the PTI founder said that the former COAS stabbed them in the back.
“I could have de-notified Bajwa,” Khan said, adding that he had shown restraint. He said: “Despite all this, we formed a committee to meet General (retd) Bajwa.”
The PTI leader was of the view that he never wanted a confrontation with the army.
To another query, he said that General (retd) Bajwa and ex-spymaster Lt-Gen Faiz Hamid told him about the corruption of PPP Co-chairman Asif Ali Zardari and the Sharif family. “If I quit politics today, everything will be fine,” he claimed.
Referring to the alleged rigging in the February 8 general elections, the incarcerated PTI founder said that attempts were being made to control them by “slashing” their mandate. He also commended Islamabad High Court judges for raising their voices against the spy agencies’ alleged interference in judicial affairs.
