Will snatch tickets if PTI candidates don’t come out: Imran

ISLAMABAD: PTI founder Imran Khan directed his party candidates to come out for a peaceful election campaign from Sunday and said that the tickets of candidates who do not come out would be replaced with others.

Talking to media informally in the courtroom in Adiala Jail, he said that Pakistani Ambassador Asad Majeed had recommended sending a demarche in an official meeting after the cipher was received. “Shah Mehmood Qureshi found the cipher by chance. It was for General Bajwa. Every effort was made to suppress the cipher. My government was overthrown in three weeks after it. If there was no such thing in the cipher, why the demarche was sent? Does anyone send it to America?” he added.

He claimed that in October 2021, General Bajwa had hired Hussain Haqqani without his knowledge, and alleged, “Haqqani was given $35,000. He tweeted that Imran is against America while Bajwa is in its favour.”

He said his party members were not being allowed to hold election campaigns. “Elections should be held on February 8 anyway,” he added.

Meanwhile, PTI leader Shah Mehmood Qureshi said that he wanted to thank Javed Hashmi for speaking the truth.

“I want to ask Bilawal that while today he is seeing revenge politics of Nawaz Sharif, why did he take the oath of the foreign minister of Shehbaz Sharif’s government?” In Multan, Jahangir Tareen is seeking the help of PMLN but he is opposing it in Lodhran.”

Qureshi said that the cipher was only for the secretary to see and the National Security Committee accepted political interference.