‘Foresaw removal’<\/strong><\/p>\nOn Saturday, Khan in his address to PTI workers criticised the former army chief (retd) Gen Bajwa saying that he “foresaw the removal of his government” and was aware that some elements wanted to impose Shehbaz Sharif as the prime minister.<\/p>\n
The former premier was flanked by Parvez and CM Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Mahmood Khan.<\/p>\n
“General (retd) Qamar Javed Bajwa told me that he did not want this (Shehbaz becoming PM to happen). So who is responsible? Will anyone tell me this? Gen (retd) Bajwa would tell me that the [ incumbent rulers] are corrupt.”<\/p>\n
But not conceding defeat, Imran said that the Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM) move to remove him “was in my favour” as I have received “unprecedented respect”.<\/p>\n
\u201cGen (retd) Bajwa thought the PM and Ishaq Dar are geniuses and will manage the country,\u201d the PTI chairman said, adding that the former army chief realised the nation\u2019s support for Khan\u2019s party after toppling the government.<\/p>\n
The former prime minister further said that his party\u2019s popularity increased after April, following his ouster from the government due to a no-confidence motion moved by the then-opposition.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe haven\u2019t seen such cruelty even during Gen (retd) Musharraf\u2019s time after what Gen (retd) Bajwa did to us,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
The former premier added that corruption worth millions of rupees was “forgiven” by the incumbent leaders \u2014 and that is why they wanted to cling to power.<\/p>\n
The former premier said that he was told about the threat to his life when he was leaving for the march. \u201cWho would put their lives in danger for money or power?\u201d Khan questioned.<\/p>\n
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Will be first to defend if anything is said against Gen (retd) Bajwa from now on: Parvez Elahi. Punjab Chief Minister Chaudhry Parvez Elahi has said that he and his party will be the first ones to defend General (retd) Qamar Javed Bajwa if anything further is said against the former army chief. The statement […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":12758,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,2,147],"tags":[7807,5423,2263,1889,1890,103,253,194],"class_list":["post-12757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news","category-pakistan","category-politics","tag-chaudhry-parvez-elahi","tag-ishaq-dar","tag-mahmood-khan","tag-pakistan-democratic-movement","tag-pdm","tag-imran-khan","tag-pmln","tag-pti"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12757","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12757"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12757\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12758"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}