After coming into power
\n ISLAMABAD
\nFormer prime minister and Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan on Sunday said that he has a \u201cpersonal\u201d dispute with former army chief General (retd) Qamar Javed Bajwa but he will not take any action against him if he comes into power again.
\nHe made these remarks during a meeting with a delegation of Council of Pakistan Newspaper Editors (CPNE) at his Zaman Park residence in Lahore.
\nImran said that Chief of Army Staff (COAS) General Asim Munir himself has said that he will remain neutral. However, he added that holding elections within three months after the dissolution of assemblies will the biggest test of his neutrality.
\nHe said that when Lt-Gen (retd) Faiz Hameed was removed as DG ISI, it became obvious that a plan has been hatched to topple the PTI government. \u201cI told Gen Bajwa that if the plan to topple the government succeeds, no one will be able to manage the country\u2019s economy,\u201d he added.
\nThe former prime minister said that he explained to the former army chief how Shehbaz could be considered for the prime minister\u2019s post as he was named in Rs16 billion worth of corruption cases. However, he added, he later came to know that corruption was not an issue for General (retd) Bajwa.
\n\u201cGen Bajwa used to say that Aleem Khan should be made the [Punjab] chief minister. I found out about his illegal possession so I said how he can be made chief minister,\u201d he said.
\nImran said that Pakistan\u2019s economy would have performed even better if there wasn\u2019t a coronavirus pandemic and China was not locked down for two years.
\nEconomy of the country is on a decline and income of people is low then how can loans be returned in this situation, he questioned. \u201cA country cannot prosper if there is no rule of law,\u201d he added.
\n\u201cI told Gen Bajwa that if we catch 10 to 12 top corrupt people, everything will get back on right track.\u201d
\nImran said that National Accountability Bureau (NAB) was formed in 1999 but it should be questioned whether corruption increased or decreased since then.
\n\u201cWe had a decent relation with Gen Bajwa but I don\u2019t know what happened later.\u201d
\nTalking about the Toshakhana case, the PTI chief said that if there was corruption during his tenure, then the opponents would have raised it rather than highlighting the Toshakhana issue only.
\n\u201cToshakhana is not a museum. If I had not bought the watch it would have been bought by someone else during an auction,\u201d he said, adding that Nawaz Sharif and Asif Ali Zardari too bought expensive cars from Toshakhana.
\nThe former prime minister further said that he will not form a weak government this time as it is unable to produce results.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
After coming into power ISLAMABAD Former prime minister and Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan on Sunday said that he has a \u201cpersonal\u201d dispute with former army chief General (retd) Qamar Javed Bajwa but he will not take any action against him if he comes into power again. He made these remarks during a meeting […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":288250,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[2833,11863,6388,387],"class_list":{"0":"post-301964","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-top-news","8":"tag-imran-khan","9":"tag-no-action","10":"tag-promises","11":"tag-qamar-javed-bajwa"},"yoast_head":"\n