By Staff Reporter
MARDAN: Former premier Imran Khan on Friday said his disagreement with the establishment was over the extension of Lieutenant General Faiz Hameed as the Inter-Services Intelligence chief till the “winters”.
Khan said he wanted Lt-Gen Hameed to continue as ISI chief given the post-Taliban-takeover Afghanistan situation and the then-opposition’s suspected “plot” against his government.
“My relationship with the establishment was good till the last day of my government, but there were two issues on which they did not see eye to eye,” Khan said speaking at a public rally here on Friday.
The ex-premier said he was still receiving messages from the establishment but he had “blocked their numbers” and would only speak to them once an election date was announced.
The PTI chairman said he was calling people to Islamabad for a “revolution” that sought “real independence” for Pakistan.
The PTI chairman reiterated the United States had “conspired” against his regime, while the current government’s “Mir Sadiqs and Mir Jafars” were involved in it.
Khan said when he came to know about the “conspiracy”, he went to the “people” who could stop it.
“I told them that if this conspiracy succeeds, then our economy will falter given its current condition.”
The ex-prime minister said he asked former finance minister Shaukat Tarin to tell those who “call themselves neutral” that the economy would collapse, but unfortunately, they did not stop it.
The PTI chairman said his party came into power after the “corrupt” politicians had already ruled the country for 10 years. “We inherited a historic deficit as they had destroyed the economy.”
Khan said given the condition of the economy when he formed the government, he went to seek loans from friendly countries — China, the United Arab Emirates, and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia — to save the country from becoming a defaulter.
‘Better Nuke Pakistan’
In a separate conversation with journalists earlier, Khan said Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif was not the only “Mir Jafar and Mir Sadiq”, as there were others as well and he would disclose their names when the time comes.
Imran Khan asked people who supported the “conspiracy”, whether they were not worried about Pakistan’s future. “It would have been better to drop an atom bomb on Pakistan than to have these people in power.”
The PTI chairman said he had learned about the “conspiracy” in June last year, but unfortunately, “all the decisions” were made to weaken his government — and it was eventually ousted.
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