Asim Munir Jailed My Wife Bushra Bibi For Personal Vengeance: Jailed Ex-Pakistan PM Imran Khan

Pakistan's ex-Prime Minister Imran Khan has alleged that Army Chief Gen Asim Munir of targeting his first wife, Bushra Bibi, out of personal vendetta after being fired from the post of ISI chief during his tenure.

What Imran Khan Said?

In a post on X, Khan said, "As Prime Minister, when I removed General Asim Munir from the post of DG ISI, he sought to approach my wife Bushra Bibi through intermediaries to discuss the matter. Bushra Bibi categorically declined, saying that she had no involvement with such affairs and would not meet him. It is General Asim Munir's vindictive nature that is behind Bushra Bibi's unjust 14-month incarceration and deplorable inhumane treatment in prison,"

The Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) criticised Gen Munir, claiming that the way his wife has been targeted for personal vengeance is unprecedented and such thing never happened even when Pakistan witnessed the darkest periods of dictatorship.

"She was accused of aiding and abetting, an allegation for which no proof has ever been presented, and she is arrested in one false case after another. She is a private citizen, a homemaker with no political involvement. I have not even been allowed to meet her in the past four weeks." "According to jail regulations, I was scheduled to meet her on June 1 but even that meeting was denied, in complete violation of court orders," Khan claimed.

The former Pakistan PM then claimed that the events of May 9, 2023 where military installations were targeted, were a part of the "London Plan" and the sole purpose of was to destroy Pakistan's largest political party the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf. He continued, "Under this premeditated plan, I and several of my party leaders and workers were unlawfully imprisoned. Our democratic mandate was brazenly stolen, and corrupt individuals - Sharifs and Zardaris - were imposed upon the nation.

"We were subjected to relentless fascist oppression, our supporters were shot at, and baseless cases have been fabricated against us," he said, lambasting the military-backed regime of the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N).

The PTI leader added that several judges are "complicit in this campaign of repression against his party". Since 2023, Imran Khan has been incarcerated in Adiala Jail of Rawalpindi in connection with multiple cases. "Despite repeated demands, they refuse to summon or examine the stolen CCTV footage from May 9, 2023. Not a single judge has the courage to demand those tapes and deliver a verdict based on evidence. We are innocent. Our people are being sentenced without evidence and without the right to a fair trial. We will petition all courts to demand the release and review of that CCTV footage," he stated.

Imran Khan has batted for the formation of a judicial commission to conduct a transparent investigation into the "massacres (of unarmed pro-democracy protesters) of May 9 and November 26, 2024 in Islamabad".

"The judiciary in Pakistan has never been more disgraceful than it is today. In the past, there was Justice Munir, whose unjust decisions earned him global notoriety. Today, Justice Qazi Faez Isa is following in the same footsteps. The entire judicial system seems complicit, driven not by justice but by a desire to protect their own jobs and privileges," he added.