Interior Minister Rana Sanaullah referred to Imran as the ‘establishment’s kid’ and said that he was brought to power through a ‘fake election’.

Speaking to party workers in Faisalabad, he added that PTI would reach its demise, the same way that it had been created. He also said that PTI’s leaders were now on the run.

Rana said that the PTI chief had implicated PMLN leaders in false cases throughout his tenure, but his own leg had somehow healed as soon as he was given to NAB custody.

He also said that Imran had spent his time in Zaman Park ‘moulding’ the brains of his followers to respond violently if he was arrested.

PTI Chairman Imran Khan said that the entire political system is being dismantled to make sure he does not come to power again.

“In order to keep me out, the entire democratic system is being dismantled,” he said in an interview with CNN on Sunday.

He added that the PDM parties have aligned themselves with the establishment to keep him out and that with the current state of things, elections might not even take place in October if the PDM thinks PTI would win.

He also added that even the Supreme Court’s decisions on elections have been disregarded.

He also added that people are being implicated in arson cases to dismantle the party.

Amid a crackdown on his party and a confrontation with the government and the establishment, Imran Khan said on Sunday that Army Chief General Asim Munir has a ‘problem with him’.

“How can you win by taking on your own army?” he told CNN’s Fareed Zakaria. “Even if you win, it would be a pyrrhic victory.”

He added that Pakistan ‘needs a powerful army’ and that the army gave great sacrifices.

“The army has been a fact (in a Pakistan,” Imran said, adding that he had no problem with the army.

Imran Khan tweeted on Sunday that he had never fired General Asim Munir fro mthe post of the DG ISI. He also said that Munir had never shown him any proof of his wife, Bushra being involved in corruption.

Imran Khan posted a tweet in response to an article in the Telegraph, but the story has been in circulation since Munir’s name was first floated as a possible successor to General Qamar Javed Bajwa as army chief in November.

PML-N leader Ahsan Iqbal has blamed PTI chief Imran Khan for May 9 riots, saying that the former prime minister was frequently making attempts to malign the establishment for “again bringing him to power”.

“There is a method in every madness,” he said at a press conference Narowal which was focused on May 9 violence. “This was not a reaction but a planning.”

The planning minister was speaking about the attack on state buildings in the wake of Khan’s arrest on May 9. “Those who were doing this were not unidentified but identified because they were office bearers of PTI,” Iqbal said and added that the PTI chief’s accusations against the agency would not absolve him from the violent protests.

“All these [attacks] were pre-planned and these sites were chosen which were linked to Pakistan’s security and development,” Iqbal said.

In reaction to West concerns over Pakistan’s situation, the PML-N leader wondered whether the US would pardon the rioters of Capitol Hill or the United Kingdom government release rioters who disturbed law and order when David Cameron was the PM.

Defence Minister Khawaja Asif has said that no new military courts will be established for trying those responsible for attacking the military installations during violent protests on May 9.

“No new military courts are being established. Law is already present at this time. Courts are present and they have been working for the past 75 years continuously,” he said at a press conference in Sialkot on Sunday.

The defence minister added that the government was not “snatching anyone’s basic rights”. Cases would be pursued against individuals whose “footage, faces and identity is present that they are attacking military installations,” Asif said.

In response to a query, he called for treating the attackers of military installations as enemies of the country are treated according to the law.

“I don’t doubt on the patriotism of anyone, but the intention of those who attacked army installations on May 9 raises a question on their intention relationship with this soil,” he said.

The defence minister went on to add that power was not permanent and they have “never raised the question” on their relationship with the country’s military.

“It is time for the entire nation to unite and express its gratitude to Pakistan’s forces and strengthen this relationship,” he said.

PTI chief Imran Khan has decided to join the national-graft buster’s investigation into accusations of receiving land worth millions of dollars as a bribe from a real estate tycoon through a charitable trust, Al-Qadir Trust case.

“Through your call up notice dated 16-05-2023, you have called me to join the investigation at Islamabad on 19th May, 2023. This is to intimate you that I shall be in Islamabad on 23-05-2023, inter alia, to pursue a number of pre-arrest bails pending in the courts at Islamabad, and shall be free from the courts to join the investigation by 11am,” said in his response to NAB’s call up notice.

Khan and others are accused of misusing their authority as public officeholders in aiding and abetting the illegal transfer of 190 pounds million for personal gains.

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The police raided PTI leader Murad Saeed’s house in Kabal town of Swat, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa on Saturday, claims party. In the wake of the May 9 riots, the police have started arresting PTI leaders under the Maintenance of Public Order ordinance.

A video shared by the PTI on Twitter showed that elite force members of the police climbed the gate of Saeed’s house. But the PTI leader was not there.

The government has claimed that the PTI’s leadership backed the May 9 violent protests following former premier Imran Khan’s arrest. They have accused the central leadership of PTI of inciting the people to protest, which led to attack on state buildings.

In his tweet, Saeed claimed that he “talked about peace and is fallible — do not want to push my people in someone else’s fire.”

He described the raid as “an armed foray”, alleging that he did not bargain on the country’s honour and did not keep the nation’s honour in a mortgage. “Trampling our privacy is bound to be done.”

The party claimed that Saeed was facing serious life threats. In his video message a few days ago, he alleged that there were ill plans to “shoot him on sight” and the police would blame it on resistance shown by him during the arrest.

The former ruling party urged the international human rights community to raise their voice for him.