by India Today World DeskPakistan’s former prime minister Imran Khan, who blamed the US after being ousted from power in April last year, sought the intervention of an American lawmaker. Government screws on his party workers and leaders, Geo News reported.
The report is based on an alleged audio conversation between Imran Khan and US Congresswoman Maxine Moore Waters that was leaked on social media.
The report said that in the purported audio, the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf chief is heard asking the US lawmaker to raise her voice against “human rights violations” in Pakistan.
Action on PTI started after a few days Protesters stormed the Army Headquarters (GHQ) in Rawalpindi and set fire to a corps commander’s house in Lahore. On the dramatic arrest of Imran Khan on May 9 in a corruption case.
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Notably, Imran Khan’s arrest comes a day after the Army accused the former PM of leveling baseless allegations against a senior official of spy agency ISI. Khan had claimed that Faisal Naseer alias ‘Dirty Harry’ was behind previous assassination attempts on him and was also responsible for the murder of journalist Arshad Sharif.
In the clip, Imran Khan can be heard briefing Maxine Moore Waters about the situation in Pakistan and requesting her to issue a statement in his favour.
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“I got three bullets in one assassination attempts, My government was removed by former army chief [General Qamar Javed Bajwa] Because the military establishment here is very powerful. They conspired with those who are currently in power and brought down my government,” Khan was heard telling Maxim in the purported audio clip.
“We just want a statement that exposes [crackdown] And it will really help us. If someone like you speaks up Maxine it makes a lot of waves,” he said.