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LAHORE: Pakistan’s Punjab authorities has authorized the registration of extra circumstances in opposition to jailed former prime minister Imran Khan and his social gathering males for inciting hate in opposition to the state establishments, particularly the highly effective Pakistan Military. The 71-year-old former cricketer-turned-politician has been in jail since August final 12 months after being convicted in among the almost 200 circumstances slapped on him since his ouster in April 2022.
“The Punjab Cupboard of Maryam Nawaz has authorized authorized motion in opposition to Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) founder chief Imran Khan and his different social gathering leaders for constructing a hate narrative in opposition to the state establishments,” Punjab Info Minister Azma Bokhari advised a press convention after a cupboard assembly on Friday night.
The minister mentioned Khan is making an attempt to turn out to be Mujeebur Rehman (of Bangladesh). Mujeebur Rehman had efficiently led the Bangladeshi independence motion in opposition to Pakistan. He turned the primary prime minister of Bangladesh in 1971.
Bokhari mentioned those that meet Khan in Adiala Jail Rawalpindi additionally observe him in spreading hate in opposition to the establishments.
The Punjab authorities is prone to e-book Khan and his shut associates for writing an article in a British newspaper on a grievance from a journalist, she mentioned.
Earlier this month, in an article in The Telegraph newspaper, Khan alleged that the army institution, below the direct steerage of Gen Asim Munir, the chief of military workers, has tried each tactic to decimate his social gathering’s presence from the political atmosphere of Pakistan however failed.
“The oppression, torture and denial of our election image have been extensively documented, however nothing has labored for the army and the powerless civilian management performing as its puppets. Pakistan’s normal elections on February 8 2024, confirmed the utter failure of their design.
“With no single electoral image in a rustic the place the overwhelming majority of voters are guided by a celebration image, the folks got here out and voted overwhelmingly for candidates supported by my social gathering, the PTI, regardless of standing as ‘independents’ with a number of various symbols,” he wrote.
Khan additional mentioned this democratic revenge by the folks of Pakistan in opposition to the agenda of the army institution not solely was a nationwide defiance by the folks but in addition an entire rejection of the official state narrative of Could 9 2023, when PTI supporters had been falsely accused – as a pretext for a crackdown – of attacking army installations.
“As a substitute of accepting the folks’s mandate, the army institution went right into a match of rage and electoral outcomes had been manipulated to convey into energy the losers. The constitutional functioning of state establishments have to be restored, the army institution has executed all they may in opposition to me. All that’s left for them is to now homicide me.
“I’ve acknowledged publicly that if something occurs to me or my spouse, Gen Asim Munir might be accountable. However I’m not afraid as a result of my religion is powerful. I would favor demise over slavery,” Khan wrote.