Former Pakistan prime minister Imran Khan has claimed that the establishment is calling him but he has blocked their numbers and will not speak to anyone until a date for the general election🐼 is announced, contending that dropping an atom bomb on the country would b🗹e better than having "criminals" at the helm of the government.
Khan, who was voted out of power last month through a no-confidence motion, becoming the first Pakistan prime minister to be ousted unceremoniously by Parliament, urged people to prepare for the ‘historic march’ to the federal capital and said that “many options (would be) o🌞pen when people come on streets”.
“Messages are coming from the establishment, but I will not talk to anyone unless the date of the next general election i꧑s announced," Da🌟wn newspaper quoted Khan as telling reporters on Friday.
Khan said that he has "ಞ;blocked their n♔umbers".
Khan has repea🥂te🍸dly said that the US conspired with the then Opposition leaders to topple his government.
He asked people who supp🐬orted the "conspiracy" wh🃏ether they were not worried about Pakistan's future, Geo news channel reported.
"It would have been better to drop an atom bomb on Pakistan than to have these criminals in power,"𝓀 he said.
The Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) chairman said he had learned about the "conspiracy" in June last year, bu♔t unfortunately, "all the decisions" were made to weaken his government — and it was eventually sent packing.
Khan said his relationship with the establishment (th♒e military) was good till the last day of his government, but♐ there were two issues on which they did not see eye to eye.
The former prime minister said "powerful quarters" wanted Usman Buzda🐭r removed as the chief minister of Punjab province, but he would tell them that there was "more corruption and governance issues in Sindh".
The second disagreement with the establishment was over the then country’s spymaster𒆙 Lt Gen Faiz Hameed.
“I couldn’t even think that corruptioꦇn was not an issue for 'powerful quarters' and they would impose these criminals on the country, but unfortunately, that happened,” the 69-year-old cricketer-turned-politician said.
Earlier, Khan took a veiled dig at the powerful army for allowing the Opposition’s crucial no-confidence motion filed against him to become a success, saying he had warned the “neutrals” that if the “con𝓀spiracy” succeeded, the country’s fragile economic recovery would go into a "tailspin".
Khan took to social media after the Pakistani rupee continued to depreciate and reached Rs 193 against the US dollar, th𒅌e lowest in the country's history.
He said the “imported government” was doing nothing asꦫ the market was waiting for acꦚtion.
Since his ouster, he has blamed the US for conspiring against his governmen🥀t – a stance that the incumbent government of Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has refuted.
The state institutions like the judic൩iarᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚy and the military have been severely criticised by pro-Khan supporters since their leader was ousted from power through a no-confidence motion.
Since then, Kh𓆏an held several public rallies in different cities, labelling the new government as “traitors and corrupt rulers” allegedly imposed at the behest of the US.(With PTI inputs)
