{"id":35616,"date":"2024-05-08T19:39:51","date_gmt":"2024-05-08T14:39:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=35616"},"modified":"2024-05-08T19:39:51","modified_gmt":"2024-05-08T14:39:51","slug":"imran-khan-says-ready-for-inquiry-into-2014-sit-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/imran-khan-says-ready-for-inquiry-into-2014-sit-in\/","title":{"rendered":"Imran Khan says ready for inquiry into 2014 sit-in"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>RAWALPINDI: Founder PTI and former Prime Minister Imran Khan Wednesday said that he is ready for an inquiry into the 2014 sit-in.<\/p>\n<p>While talking to the media in Adiala Jail, he said, \u201cI am ready for a judicial probe into the 2014 sit-in. I will be happy to appear before an inquiry committee. All allegations against me related to the 2014 sit-in are false.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In an informal conversation with journalists during a cipher case hearing, Imran Khan claimed that the 2013 election was an election of Returning Officers (ROs).<\/p>\n<p>During interaction with the media, Imran Khan backed DG ISPR Maj Gen Ahmed Sharif Chaudhry\u2019s call to hold the judicial inquiry into the 2014 sit-in staged by the PTI against the alleged rigging in the 2013 general elections.<\/p>\n<p>Furthermore, the PTI founder distanced his party from the May 9 incidents, saying that the party never resorted to violence in its history of 27 years. &#8220;I only came to know about the May 9 riots when I was presented before then-chief justice Umar Ata Bandial in the Supreme Court,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>READ MORE:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/pti-announces-nationwide-protests-on-may-9\/\">PTI announces nationwide protests on May 9<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Talking about DG ISPR&#8217;s press conference, the imprisoned former Prime Minister has refused to apologize for the May 9 riots a day after the military ruled out holding dialogue with those involved in the May 9 mayhem.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhy should I tender an apology, it should be sought from me,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Moreover, Founder PTI said that half of my family is in the army and half in the bureaucracy, the army is ours and we have no problem with the army. &#8220;For the sake of God, don&#8217;t drag the army into politics,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p>Imran Khan revealed that the people of Muslim League-N had told us privately that until Qazi Faiz Isa becomes the Chief Justice, there will be no elections and neither Nawaz Sharif will return.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RAWALPINDI: Founder PTI and former Prime Minister Imran Khan Wednesday said that he is ready for an inquiry into the 2014 sit-in. While talking to the media in Adiala Jail, he said, \u201cI am ready for a judicial probe into the 2014 sit-in. I will be happy to appear before an inquiry committee. All allegations [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":35617,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[16533,103,15994,16534],"class_list":["post-35616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pakistan","tag-2014-dharna-inquiry","tag-imran-khan","tag-imran-khan-adiala-jail","tag-imran-khan-media-talk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35616","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\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35616"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35616\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}