\u2022 Ex-PM says former army chief used him as \u2018punching bag\u2019; blames him for prevailing crises
\n\u2022 PTI chief says \u2018conspiracy\u2019 which removed him from power \u2018exported\u2019 from Pakistan to US
\n\u2022 Alleges Sharifs, Zardari want him disqualified<\/p>\n
LAHORE: After months of allegations, former prime minister Imran Khan has given a clean chit to the United States and instead held former army chief Qamar Javed Bajwa responsible for the \u2018conspiracy\u2019 which resulted in his ouster via a no-confidence motion in April last year.<\/p>\n
The PTI chairman made these remarks during an interview with the Voice of America English aired on Saturday and a separate televised address on Sunday. On both occasions, the former premier took swipes at the ex-chief of army staff, who, according to Imran Khan, was the source of all the crises plaguing Pakistan today.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhatever happened, now as things unfold, it wasn\u2019t the US who told Pakistan [to oust me]. It was unfortunately, from what evidence has come up, [former army chief] Gen [Qamar Javed] Bajwa who somehow managed to tell the Americans that I was anti-American. And so, it [the plan to oust me] wasn\u2019t imported from there. It was exported from here to there,\u201d Mr Khan told VoA in a sharp U-turn from his previous position of blaming the US.<\/p>\n
In the televised address, Imran Khan termed Gen Bajwa, who retired in November last year, \u2018super king\u2019 and admitted that his three-and-a-half-year stint in the Prime Minister\u2019s Office was more like of a puppet.<\/p>\n
\u201cGen Bajwa had become an expert of everything, including economy, politics, and foreign policy,\u201d Mr Khan alleged.<\/p>\n
\u201cGen Bajwa used to get the credit for good decisions and Imran Khan used to serve as a punching bag for every wrong decision,\u201d Mr Khan claimed, alleging that the former army chief was responsible for the \u201cpolitical and economic ills\u201d faced by the country today.<\/p>\n
Imran Khan also slammed the former chief for hampering the process of accountability. The PTI chairman claimed Mr Bajwa had decided that there would be no accountability of Shehbaz Sharif as he had already taken a decision to elevate him as the prime minister. \u201cNo accountability was held thereafter,\u201d he said and claimed that the former army chief had also acknowledged this in an interview with a columnist.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf Bajwa could be criticised or [held] accountable for his actions, he would not have been able to damage the country to such an extent,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
\u2022 Ex-PM says former army chief used him as \u2018punching bag\u2019; blames him for prevailing crises \u2022 PTI chief says \u2018conspiracy\u2019 which removed him from power \u2018exported\u2019 from Pakistan to US \u2022 Alleges Sharifs, Zardari want him disqualified LAHORE: After months of allegations, former prime minister Imran Khan has given a clean chit to the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":313441,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-313432","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-top-news"},"yoast_head":"\n