NEW DELHI, March 30 (NNN-Bernama) — Pakistan’s embattled Prime Minister Imran Khan said on Wednesday he will share with the media and his political allies evidence of foreign meddling against his government.
Pakistan is in the midst of heavy politicking as Imran’s government is facing a no-confidence vote in Parliament.
Speaking at a function in Islamabad, Imran said encountering a “political crisis” in a parliamentary democracy was not unusual but alleged that a plot was hatched by the external powers opposed to Pakistan adopting an independent foreign policy.
“It is a foreign-imported crisis. It is an external conspiracy against Pakistan,” he said.
Imran, who became prime minister in 2018, said the crisis started after the foreigners used to getting things done inside Pakistan “with just one phone call” were confronted with a situation in which his country refused to compromise on its national interests.
The Pakistan prime minister made the allegation of an external conspiracy to bring down his government first on Sunday when his party organised a huge mass rally in Islamabad.
“I mentioned I have a document (to prove foreign conspiracy). I’ll show this document to senior journalists,” the Pakistan leader said on Wednesday.
He said some of those supporting the opposition campaign to unseat him may not be aware of the “conspiracy” and he would show the document to his political allies.
“It is a bigger conspiracy than what I have told you,” Imran said.
While insisting on an independent foreign policy, Imran has not specifically named the external players allegedly working to force him out of power.
In his remarks on Wednesday, he referred to Pakistan suffering death and destruction by allying itself with the United States-led “war on terror.”
“What did we gain from that war?” Imran asked, pointing out that it cost Pakistan 80,000 lives and 3.5 million people were displaced.
“It happened because we sacrificed our interests to serve another country’s interests,” he said.
Imran, head of the ruling Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party, is a long-time critic of Pakistan siding with the US military campaigns.
After last year’s US withdrawal from Afghanistan, he famously told an American journalist that Pakistan would not give the US a military base on its soil.
— NNN-BERNAMA