Lahore:The Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI ) has appeared to “backtrack” on party chief Imran Khan’s statement in which he said he dissolved the Punjab and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa assemblies on the advice of former army chief General (retd) Qamar Javed Bajwa.
The party’s official Twitter account posted a screenshot of a private new channel’ report regarding Khan’s statement. It claimed that the report was “fake news”.
“Lifafas (paid journalists) are misleading the people once again! PTI Chairman referred to all past statements of PDM regarding dissolution of assemblies. Absolutely not what is being portrayed by some media persons,” the tweet claimed.
However, the news channel reported Khan’s statement based on the interview he gave to an other private news channel in which he clearly said that he dissolved the Punjab and KP assemblies on the advice of the former army chief.
“In a meeting with General Bajwa held in the presence of President Dr Arif Alvi, he [Gen Bajwa] said that if you want elections, dissolve your governments,” the former prime minister said in an interview with a private news channel on Sunday.
Gen Bajwa had no ideology, Khan said, adding that the former chief of army staff (COAS) told him lies.
The deposed premier said the Intelligence Bureau (IB) chief told him that Bajwa wanted to bring Shehbaz Sharif into power.
He also revealed that a leader from the Middle East had told him a year earlier that Bajwa was not with him any longer.
The PTI chief has previously claimed that Gen Bajwa’s behaviour changed after he was granted an extension.
