Former prime minister Imran Khan on Thursday asked President Arif Alvi to \u201cinstitute an immediate inquiry\u201d against retired General Qamar Javed Bajwa for violating \u201chis oath of office repeatedly\u201d as the army chief.<\/p>\n
In a letter dated Feb 14, Imran listed four ways in which the former army chief allegedly violated the Constitution, while also referring to Gen Bajwa\u2019s alleged remarks published in a column by Javed Chaudhry as purported evidence for his claim.<\/p>\n
PTI leader Shireen Mazari also announced her party chief\u2019s move on her Twitter account, sharing pictures of the said letter.<\/p>\n
Citing Chaudhry\u2019s column, Imran wrote that Gen Bajwa had \u201cadmitted to journalist Javed Chaudhry that \u2018we\u2019 considered Imran Khan [to be] dangerous to the country if he continued to stay in power\u201d.<\/p>\n
He added that it would be \u201ccritical to ascertain\u201d from Gen Bajwa that who did he refer to as \u201cwe\u201d. The former premier raised the question, \u201cWho gave him (Gen Bajwa) the power to decide that an elected prime minister (Imran) was supposedly a \u2018danger to the country if he continued to stay in power\u2019?\u201d<\/p>\n
The PTI chief asserted: \u201cOnly the people through elections can decide who they want to elect as the prime minister. Taking such a right on himself is in clear violation of his oath as given in Third Schedule Article 244 of the Constitution.\u201d<\/p>\n
Imran then listed Gen Bajwa\u2019s alleged admission that he \u201cmanaged to get NAB (National Accountability Bureau) case against Shaukat Tarin dismissed\u201d.<\/p>\n
He claimed this revealed that the NAB was under the former army chief\u2019s \u201ccontrol\u201d, which was \u201cagain a clear violation of the Constitutional oath because the army itself is a department under the Ministry of Defence and civilian official autonomous institutions (NAB) do not come [under] military control\u201d.<\/p>\n
The former premier then went on to refer to a YouTube vlog made by journalist Aftab Iqbal. He said according to Iqbal, \u201cGen Bajwa told him (Iqbal) in conversation that he had tapes of then-PM Imran Khan\u2019s conversations with him\u201d.<\/p>\n
The PTI chairman called it a \u201cserious violation\u201d of the former army chief\u2019s oath as well as of his own fundamental human rights. \u201cThe question is why and under what authorisation was Gen Bajwa recording confidential conversations?\u201d he asked.<\/p>\n
The development comes as the latest in the long-time acrimony between Imran and Gen Bajwa, who once claimed they were on the \u201csame page\u201d. The cracks in the former premier and ex-army chief\u2019s relationship came to the fore after the PTI government\u2019s ouster in April last year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Former prime minister Imran Khan on Thursday asked President Arif Alvi to \u201cinstitute an immediate inquiry\u201d against retired General Qamar Javed Bajwa for violating \u201chis oath of office repeatedly\u201d as the army chief. In a letter dated Feb 14, Imran listed four ways in which the former army chief allegedly violated the Constitution, while also […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":314107,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-314098","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-top-news"},"yoast_head":"\n