PTI chief says ruling coalition leaders are trying hard to incite quarrel between his party and military establishment
\n Islamabad
\nFormer prime minister Imran Khan has accused the ruling Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM) coalition of attempting to pit his political party, the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI), against the country\u2019s armed forces.
\nImran has claimed that the PDM is orchestrating a campaign to incite a quarrel between the PTI and the army in an attempt to eliminate his party, which he said they cannot defeat in the elections.
\n\u201cEfforts are being made to make PTI and the army come face to face. PDM is trying hard to incite quarrel between PTI and the army as these people [PDM] cannot win the elections so they want to eliminate PTI,\u201d he said this while addressing the media from his Zaman Park residence in Lahore on Monday. His statement comes just hours after Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif urged overseas Pakistanis not to support the \u201cvicious\u201d conspiracy against the Pakistan Army and Chief of Army Staff (COAS) General Asim Munir.
\nShehbaz called the \u201csmear campaign\u201d against the army chief a \u201ccontinuation\u201d of a conspiracy against the military, which he said was \u201cunacceptable.\u201d
\nSharif also accused Imran Khan of \u201cdamaging the country and undermining our armed forces and their leadership.\u201d He stressed the need to reject his political rival\u2019s \u201cagenda.\u201d The PTI has repeatedly denied any involvement in the alleged campaign against the army, with party officials calling the accusations baseless and unfounded.
\n\u201cI want to make it clear that this country is mine and so is the army. I have to live and die in Pakistan,\u201d he asserted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
PTI chief says ruling coalition leaders are trying hard to incite quarrel between his party and military establishment Islamabad Former prime minister Imran Khan has accused the ruling Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM) coalition of attempting to pit his political party, the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI), against the country\u2019s armed forces. Imran has claimed that the PDM […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":319236,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[65],"class_list":{"0":"post-320681","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-top-news","8":"tag-imran"},"yoast_head":"\n