Imran Khan asks Pakistan’s president to investigate military

In letter to the president, ex-PM questions how army officers can maintain press briefing focusing on a political chief.

Former Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan
Former Prime Minister Imran Khan speaks throughout a information convention in Shaukat Khanum Memorial Most cancers Hospital, the place he underwent remedy for a gunshot wound in Lahore, Pakistan [File: KM Chaudhry/AP Photo]

Islamabad, Pakistan – Former Prime Minister Imran Khan has requested President Arif Alvi to provoke an inquiry right into a information convention held by Pakistan’s highly effective intelligence company, which he has accused of orchestrating the assault on him.

In a letter to the president, Khan referred to the occasion held final month by Lieutenant Normal Nadeem Anjum, chief of Inter-Companies Intelligence (ISI).

“How can two army bureaucrats do a extremely political press convention focusing on the chief of the most important federal political social gathering,” wrote Khan, the pinnacle of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) social gathering.

On the unprecedented information convention on October 27, Anjum was accompanied by Lieutenant Normal Babar Iftikhar, the chief of the army’s media wing, Inter-Companies Public Relations (ISPR).

Khan is recovering at residence in Lahore after he was discharged from hospital on Sunday. Final week, he was wounded within the leg in an obvious assassination try throughout a protest rally in Wazirabad within the jap province of Punjab.

“I'm requesting you to behave now to cease the abuse of energy and violations of our legal guidelines and constitutions,” he wrote, additionally asking that the president outline ISPR’s function.

Khan has supplied no proof to again his accusations.

There was no response up to now to the letter from both the president, who's the supreme commander of the armed forces, or the army.

The 2 army officers talked to the media concerning the killing of Pakistani journalist Arshad Sharif in Kenya and responded to allegations made by Khan towards the army institution.

The PTI chief has claimed that senior intelligence official Main Normal Faisal Naseer, Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and Inside Minister Rana Sanaullah have been concerned in what he referred to as the plot to kill him, and demanded they be sacked.

He repeated the allegations in his letter to the president.

Khan has beforehand accused army officers of torturing and harassing PTI officers, together with a senator and his chief of workers.

On Friday, the army dismissed his allegations as “baseless and irresponsible”, including that accusations towards senior military officers are “unacceptable and uncalled for”.

Sharif referred to as on the nation’s prime courtroom to type a fee to research the assault.

“I don’t have the proper to stay in workplace if there's any shred of proof discovered relating to my involvement on this case,” the premier stated on Saturday.

Khan, 70, was eliminated by way of a parliamentary vote of no confidence in April.

He alleged that a US-led international conspiracy colluded with Pakistan’s army institution and his political rivals to take away him. Once more, he didn't present any proof. US and Pakistani authorities have denied these costs.

He has been conducting rallies throughout the nation since his elimination. PTI secured electoral victories in by-elections held in July and October.

The cricketer-turned-politician launched a protracted march on October 28 to Islamabad with the purpose of holding early common elections. The time period of Pakistan’s present Nationwide Meeting ends in October 2023.

In a video broadcast from the hospital on social media on Sunday, Khan introduced his social gathering will resume the lengthy march on Tuesday from Wazirabad. He stated he would be a part of the march in Rawalpindi within the coming days.

Senior PTI chief Musarrat Jamshed Cheema informed Al Jazeera that the march can be led by the social gathering’s prime management and can observe the unique route, whereas Khan will make day by day speeches.

“The plan is to have Imran Khan converse to the general public day-after-day at 4:30pm and we'll attempt to wrap up the rally day-after-day earlier than [the] solar units,” she stated.

Cheema stated the social gathering plans to conclude the rally in Islamabad in “10 to 12 days”.

“Nevertheless it all is determined by his wellbeing and his restoration. In fact, we wish him to be there as quickly as it's attainable,” she stated.

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