{"id":9338,"date":"2022-07-16T16:49:44","date_gmt":"2022-07-16T16:49:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=9338"},"modified":"2022-07-16T16:49:44","modified_gmt":"2022-07-16T16:49:44","slug":"pakistan-cant-afford-weak-army","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/pakistan-cant-afford-weak-army\/","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan can\u2019t afford weak army"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman and former Prime Minister Imran Khan on Saturday said that we cannot afford a weak army in the country.<\/p>\n<p>Addressing a seminar in Islamabad, he said &#8220;We have never seen democracy, if the courts will give justice then we will never be destroyed.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Imran added, &#8220;I went to Britain at the age of 18 and saw democracy there and democracy is stable in western countries.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The former PM further said the only difference between a prosperous and a poor society is the law and society in which there is justice is a successful society.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Read more:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/ecp.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ECP takes notice of Imran\u2019s allegations<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Taking a swipe at dictators he said all the dictators placed themselves above the law and weakened the institutions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA strong army is crucial for the country and we cannot afford a weak army in our country because everyone have witnessed the situation of the countries which had a weak army,\u201d Imran said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo one else was criticized as much as I was as the Prime Minister. As PM, I did not get relief from the court for three years and I had never tried to feed money to the media,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>The former prime minister said that both the bigwigs of PML-N and PPP have been involved in corruption.<\/p>\n<p>He also said that people were happy when Pervez Musharraf took power.<\/p>\n<p>Imran Khan also posed the question that why did the rule of law not came during the tenure of the two ruling families.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen I became the Prime Minister, I was not under any threat from the media. Fake news of tax evasion was launched against my ministers and I instructed to not arrest any journalist,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>The PTI chairman alleged that both these families have controlled the media.<\/p>\n<p>He said, &#8220;No one else has been criticized as much as I was as the Prime Minister. When I became the Prime Minister, I had no threat from the media.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman and former Prime Minister Imran Khan on Saturday said that we cannot afford a weak army in the country. Addressing a seminar in Islamabad, he said &#8220;We have never seen democracy, if the courts will give justice then we will never be destroyed.&#8221; Imran added, &#8220;I went to Britain at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":9339,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,2,147],"tags":[4625,733,5442,103,194],"class_list":["post-9338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news","category-pakistan","category-politics","tag-fake-news","tag-pakistan-tehreek-e-insaf","tag-pti-chairman","tag-imran-khan","tag-pti"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9338","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=9338"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9338\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}