Islamabad: Pakistan's jailed former Prime Minister Imran Khan on Monday alleged that Field Marshal General Asim Munir displayed a "vindictive nature". Khan accused General Munir of turning against his wife, Bushra Bibi, after being removed from the post of director general of Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) by him.
"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," Pakistan's former PM said in an X post.
"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 added.
The former Pakistan PM stated that the way his wife was targeted for personal vengeance is unprecedented and such a thing never happened during Pakistan's darkest periods of dictatorship.
"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. She is a private citizen, a homemaker with no political involvement. I have not even been allowed to meet her in the past four weeks," Khan said.
Khan also highlighted that he was scheduled to meet her on June 1 but even that meeting was denied, which was in complete violation of court orders.
Intensifying his attack on General Munir, the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf supremo termed the events of May 9, 2023, in which military installations were targeted as part of the "London Plan". As per Khan, the aim of the "London Plan" was to "eliminate his party Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf.
"Under this premeditated plan, I and several of my party leaders and workers were unlawfully imprisoned. Our democratic mandate was brazenly stolen, and corrupt individuals - Sharifs and Zardaris - were imposed upon the nation. We were subjected to relentless fascist oppression, our supporters were shot at, and baseless cases have been fabricated against us," he said.
The former Pakistan Prime Minister also alleged that anti-terrorism courts and numerous judges are "complicit" in the campaign of repression against his party. He said that judges refused to examine the CCTV camera footage from May 9, 2023.
Not a single judge has the courage to demand those tapes and deliver a verdict based on evidence. We are innocent. Our people are being sentenced without evidence and without the right to a fair trial. We will petition all courts to demand the release and review of that CCTV footage," he said.
In January this year, Khan and his wife were convicted in a corruption case. The former Pakistan PM was sentenced to 14 years imprisonment in the £190 million Al-Qadir Trust land corruption case. Meanwhile, the court awarded Bushra Bibi a seven-year jail term.
The former Pakistan PM has been imprisoned since August 2023 in connection with various legal cases, which he calls politically motivated. In 2024, Khan was acquitted in the cipher and Iddat cases but faces new charges in the Toshakhana 2 case.
