ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s jailed former PM Imran Khan has criticised the policies of the (military) establishment in a letter to army chief General Asim Munir and called for a review of its approach towards national security and governance, his party’s leaders said on Monday.
In the letter, sent from Adiala Jail in Rawalpindi, the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) chief expressed his concerns over what he described as a widening gap between the army and the public.
Quoting Imran, PTI chairman Gohar Ali Khan said this mistrust should not exist at all, but there are certain reasons because of which this gulf is widening. “Owing to those reasons, the army is being blamed, so the policy reasons must be reevaluated,” he added.
Sharing the contents of the letter, PTI lawyer Faisal Chaudhry said the primary reason for the mistrust between the (military) establishment and the people, according to Imran, was the alleged rigging of the Feb 8, 2024 elections that led to a “minority govt being imposed over the majority’s wishes”. He said the second point was the passage of the 26th amendment to the constitution through which the “judiciary has been controlled” and which was brought to “ruin the justice system and to provide cover to the election fraud and Imran Khan’s cases”. Chaudhry said Khan also criticised the recent changes to media laws that put restrictions on the internet, social media, freedom of opinion and expression, and opposing thought.
The PTI lawyer said the country’s IT industry was at stake and that human rights violations also jeopardised the country’s GSP+ status.
In the letter, Imran argued that all institutions have been tasked with crushing the PTI in the country. “Terrorism is increasing because those (military, ISI) responsible for stopping it are busy with the PTI … because of this their attention has been taken away from their real job and terrorism has increased in the country even more than 2013,” Chaudhry quoted Imran as saying.
The next point that Imran highlighted was the “blame for the contravention and violation of the court and judiciary’s orders also falling on the military”. According to Chaudhry, some forces did not allow implementation of court orders. “The blame for daily threats to journalists and judges is also falling on the institutions (army, ISI) because of which the gap between them and the people is widening when the need is for policies to be quickly changed and set as per the law and the Constitution so that political instability in the country is reduced,” he added. The “change of policy” was being demanded “in the nation’s broader interest, the PTI lawyer said.
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