"Listen Carefully, The Things I Know...": Imran Khan Warns Pak's ISI - NDTV

Lahore/Islamabad:

Imran Khan connected Friday said helium volition stay "silent" arsenic helium does not privation to "damage" the state and its institutions, a time aft the ISI main said the erstwhile premier curate made a "lucrative offer" to Pakistan Army main General Qamar Javed Bajwa successful instrumentality for backing his authorities during the governmental turmoil successful March this year.

Addressing his enactment supporters astatine Lahore's celebrated Liberty Chowk aft launching his protestation march towards Islamabad demanding aboriginal elections, the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf main said his march is not for authorities oregon idiosyncratic involvement but to summation existent state and guarantee that each decisions were made successful Pakistan and not successful London oregon Washington.

"My lone purpose is to escaped my federation and crook Pakistan into a escaped country," Khan, lasting atop a container, said.

Khan rejected ISI main Lt Gen Nadeem Ahmed Anjum's allegations successful an unprecedented property league connected Thursday, saying it was one-sided and helium lone “talked astir Iman Khan” and ne'er uttered a connection against the “thieves” successful the government.

“DG ISI, perceive carefully, the things I know, I americium staying soundless for my institutions and the country. I don't privation to harm my country,” the PTI main said arsenic the assemblage cheered.

“Our disapproval is for constructive purposes and for your improvement. I tin accidental much but volition not accidental arsenic it volition wounded the institution,” helium said.

Lt Gen Anjum connected Thursday said that Army main Gen Bajwa was fixed a "lucrative offer" by the past authorities amidst the governmental turmoil successful March. Gen. Bajwa is scheduled to discontinue adjacent period aft a 3-year extension.

The unprecedented property league by the spy main came arsenic the state was grappling with antithetic versions astir the sidesplitting of writer Arshad Sharif successful Kenya and indirect allegations against the equipped forces. Sharif was changeable dormant astatine a constabulary checkpoint astatine an hour's region from Nairobi connected Sunday night, creating a tempest successful the country.

The Kenyan constabulary aboriginal said it was a lawsuit of “mistaken identity” during a hunt for a akin car progressive successful a kid abduction case.

Addressing his supporters, Khan said that, dissimilar Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) supremo Nawaz Sharif, helium was "not a runaway that would either beryllium softly present oregon criticise the subject successful London".

"I americium not going to permission this country. I volition unrecorded and dice successful this country," added the PTI chief.

“If the handlers and facilitators of the thieves of this imported authorities deliberation that they (government) should beryllium accepted by us, past listen, this federation volition springiness each sacrifice but volition ne'er judge these thieves,” helium said.

Khan besides promised that the march would beryllium peaceful. “Our march volition beryllium according to the law, we volition not interruption immoderate rule. We volition not participate the (high security) Red Zone and volition lone spell to the areas which person been designated by the Supreme Court for protests,” helium said.

He besides alleged that the Supreme Court failed to support his supporters' law close during the protestation connected May 25 but hoped that “this clip our rights volition beryllium protected”.

Khan, 70, plans to get successful Islamabad connected November 4 and has sought ceremonial support from the authorities to let his enactment to clasp a protestation rally. His enactment has billed the protestation arsenic a ‘Haqiqi Azadi March' oregon a protestation for existent state of the country.

It is not wide if helium would spell backmost aft the rally oregon alteration it into a sit-in connected the signifier of his 2014 protestation erstwhile a 126-day sit-in was staged by his followers successful beforehand of the parliament building.

The authorities rejected the march and Information Minister Marriyum Aurangzeb said that the federation had refused to beryllium subservient to a "foreign-funded" instigator and had rejected the "bloody march".

Interior Minister Rana Sanaullah during a property league flanked by officials of the Federal Investigation Agency successful Islamabad, said that Khan tried to “threaten” the authorities and institutions to “get a day for elections” but failed successful this regard.

The curate said that aft each of the PTI chief's tactics failed, helium has present resorted to holding a agelong march.

“He made galore speeches and utilized the connection ‘neutral'. But erstwhile each this failed, helium had nary enactment near but to effort thing else,” Sanaullah said.

He warned that “strict enactment volition beryllium taken if they effort to interruption the instrumentality and make a instrumentality and bid concern successful the capital." Sanaullah added that if PTI stood by its committedness to enactment wrong the places permitted by the Supreme Court, nary 1 would halt them from exercising its antiauthoritarian right.

Minister for Climate Change Sherry Rehman has alleged that Khan considers himself to beryllium “above the instrumentality and Constitution” arsenic she accused the PTI main of feeding radical lies.

Rehman said that Imran was a “fascist” who considered himself to beryllium the “king”. “This is wherefore helium leads radical towards violence,” she added.

PTI caput wide Asad Umar earlier told the media successful Lahore that the protestation would beryllium peaceful. He said that the enactment decided to dedicate the march to killed writer Sharif.

The state was grappling with antithetic versions astir the sidesplitting of writer Sharif successful Kenya and indirect allegations against the equipped forces.

Former accusation curate Fawad Chaudhry said that the PTI's agelong march lone had 1 docket — caller elections.

The PTI person told Dawn News that the radical of Pakistan wanted caller elections to beryllium held. “People person travel retired successful hundreds and thousands. This is our conflict for existent freedom,” helium said.

He told the “handlers” of the incumbent authorities that they were facing a “flood of people” against which nary could stand.

“Their handlers, perceive carefully. This is simply a flood of radical and nary tin basal against it,” helium said portion addressing the protesters arsenic his march reached Ichhra successful Lahore.

During a abbreviated pitstop successful Lahore's Ichhra, Khan delivered different fiery speech, this clip targeting the government.

“They bargain money, spell abroad, travel backmost aft receiving an NRO and past instrumentality [to power] again,” Khan said from atop his instrumentality arsenic Shah Mahmood Qureshi stood down him.

“What bash they deliberation of us? That we are bher bakriyan (fools)? Those who person stolen billions from our state and unrecorded successful palaces successful London are made premier minister,” helium said.

Meanwhile, the Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (Pemra) has directed tv channels not to unrecorded telecast programmes and different content, peculiarly portion covering PTI leaders' speeches and the agelong march.

The Pemra said portion monitoring Friday's transmission, it was observed during a code “statements against authorities institutions were aired live” successful usurpation of the codification of behaviour and tribunal orders.

It directed tv channels to refrain from “airing contented that [is] tantamount to malign/ disgrace authorities institutions (advertently oregon inadvertently) and to sensitise their editorial boards, directors (new and programming), bureaus and tract reporters to comply with these directives.

Legal action, starring to suspensions and revocation of licences, would beryllium initiated successful lawsuit of non-compliance, Pemra warned.

Khan has been demanding aboriginal elections and threatening a protestation march towards Islamabad to unit his demands if the authorities failed to springiness a day for elections. The word of the National Assembly volition extremity successful August 2023 and caller elections should beryllium held wrong 60 days.

Khan, who was ousted from powerfulness successful April aft losing a no-confidence ballot successful his leadership, has talked astir a 'threat letter' from the US and claimed that it was portion of a overseas conspiracy to region him arsenic helium was not acceptable for pursuing an autarkic overseas policy. The US has bluntly rejected the allegations.

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