{"id":17866,"date":"2023-07-15T16:38:35","date_gmt":"2023-07-15T11:38:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=17866"},"modified":"2023-07-15T16:38:35","modified_gmt":"2023-07-15T11:38:35","slug":"imran-khan-defends-protests-in-cantt-areas-disowns-vandalism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/imran-khan-defends-protests-in-cantt-areas-disowns-vandalism\/","title":{"rendered":"Imran Khan defends protests in cantt areas, disowns vandalism"},"content":{"rendered":"
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LAHORE: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan defended his supporters’ protests inside the cantonment areas when he appeared before a joint investigation team (JIT) probing the May 9 violent incidents on Friday.<\/p>\n

Sources said that the former premier was interrogated by a six-member panel comprising a DIG, SSP and four SPs for an hour at the DIG Investigation headquarters for his alleged role in the attacks on the Corps Commander House (Jinnah House) and other military installations in the city.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe will ask you only professional questions,\u201d JIT members reportedly told Khan.<\/p>\n

When asked whether the May 9 events were planned or just a coincidence, the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf chief said it was a conspiracy against him and his party.<\/p>\n

\u201cI have got nothing to do with it, it was planned elsewhere,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

He was also asked why the PTI supporters protested inside cantonment areas, to which he said, \u201cpeople were bound to go there because I was arrested by a commander.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThere is evidence that you provoked them and gave orders,\u201d JIT asked.<\/p>\n

Read more:\u00a0Imran Khan,’hiding in bunker’, to be made an example for May 9 mayhem: Maryam Nawaz<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

The PTI chairman, according to the sources, rejected the allegation and maintained that protesters were acting on their own and went to those places voluntarily.<\/p>\n

\u201cEverything that happened that day was a conspiracy,\u201d the PTI chief said, according to the sources aware of the details.<\/p>\n

The JIT also showed various videos and pictures to the PTI chief related to the May 9 mayhem.<\/p>\n

The sources said that Imran Khan denied knowing any of the protestors in those visuals and said, \u201cthey are not my people\u201d.<\/p>\n

Khan also warned the JIT members of consequences for actions taken against his party, sources said Saturday.<\/p>\n

\u201cI will make a comeback and you will have to answer for all your actions,\u201d he said to the JIT members in a threatening tone.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

LAHORE: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan defended his supporters’ protests inside the cantonment areas when he appeared before a joint investigation team (JIT) probing the May 9 violent incidents on Friday. Sources said that the former premier was interrogated by a six-member panel comprising a DIG, SSP and four SPs for an hour at […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":17867,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,2,147],"tags":[9723,733,103,253,194],"class_list":["post-17866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news","category-pakistan","category-politics","tag-9-may","tag-pakistan-tehreek-e-insaf","tag-imran-khan","tag-pmln","tag-pti"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17866","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=17866"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17866\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17867"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}