New Delhi: Pakistan’s jailed former prime minister Imran Khan has alleged that Army chief general Asim Munir showed a “vindictive nature,” while claiming that the new Field Marshal turned against his wife, Bushra Bibi, after he was removed from the post of Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) chief during his tenure.
Khan said that Munir tried to get in touch with his wife through intermediaries to take up the matter. “As Prime Minister, when I removed General Asim Munir from the post of DG ISI, he sought to approach my wife Bushra Bibi through intermediaries to discuss the matter,” Khan posted on X on Monday.
He added: “Bushra Bibi categorically declined, saying that she had no involvement with such affairs and would not meet him. It is General Asim Munir’s vindictive nature that is behind Bushra Bibi’s unjust 14-month incarceration and deplorable inhumane treatment in prison.”
Khan further stated that his wife was being targeted because of “personal vengeance”. He added that such actions had never occurred even during Pakistan’s darkest periods under dictatorship.
About allegations levelled against his wife, Khan said: “She was accused of aiding and abetting, an allegation for which no proof has ever been presented, and she is arrested in one false case after another.”
Khan said that his wife is a private citizen and a homemaker with no political involvement, and he has not been allowed to meet her in the past four weeks.
“According to jail regulations, I was scheduled to meet her on June 1 but even that meeting was denied, in complete violation of court orders,” Khan, who has been in jail for nearly two years, revealed.
‘Premediated plan’
Khan also mentioned the events of May 9, 2023, in which military installations were targeted, were in fact a part of the “London Plan”- the only aim of which was to “eliminate Pakistan’s largest political force, the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf”.
Dubbing it as a “premediated plan”, Khan said that several of his party leaders and workers were unlawfully imprisoned. Khan also alleged that the anti-terrorism courts, along with several judges, have a hand in the ongoing campaign against his party. He also urged the setting up of a judicial commission to probe the events of May 9 and November 26, 2024.
