After Khan’s arrest, his party called for demonstrations, which turned violent in many places.
Islamabad:
Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf (PTI) chairman Imran Khan accused his ‘political opponents’ of “out to kill him” and said he would remain in Pakistan and fight all lawsuits despite his benefactors abroad who urged him to leave the country. country, Dawn reported.
In a video address from his residence in Zaman Park in Lahore on Wednesday, Khan said his well-wishers called him and said that the Pakistani establishment and all political parties were against him and that they had already “caught” the entire PTI.
“I have not committed theft or crime. Why should I leave Pakistan?” he asked. “I’m only standing here because I believe in Allah,” Dawn was quoted as saying by the former prime minister.
Last month, the government banned Khan, his wife and hundreds of political aides from traveling abroad after the May 9 arrest of the PTI chief sparked violent protests across the country.
The PTI chairman claimed six more FIRs had been registered against him, bringing the total to 180 cases, and that he was running from one court to another seeking bail in “mock cases”.
The former prime minister further stressed that his party lawyers, leaders and workers should “register cases against the police officers he said used arbitrary tactics against civilians, including relatives of PTI leaders and workers,” Dawn reported.
“The nation should not continue oppression, but act peacefully against it,” he added.
Earlier on Monday, Imran Khan lashed out at Shehbaz Sharif’s government, claiming that the government had “made a plan” to put him in jail and that the whole episode about his arrest was “pre-planned”.
Speaking to the nation, former Prime Minister Imran Khan said: “I want the nation to know how a plan has been made to arrest me on false and baseless charges. A lawyer is being killed in Quetta and without any investigation and evidence. Shahbaz Sharif’s adviser comes on TV the same day and says that the murder was committed by Imran Khan and later the video of the same lawyer’s widow reveals who did it.”
On May 9 this year, former Prime Minister and PTI Chairman Imran Khan was arrested from the Supreme Court in Islamabad by the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) on charges of corruption related to the Al-Qadir Trust, which he co-owns with his wife . , Bushra Bibi.
After Khan’s arrest, his party called for demonstrations, which turned violent in many places. The government resorted to crackdowns and many arrests were made across the country. Those accused of the May 9 violence are being tried by military courts.
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