Former minister within the Imran Khan authorities, Shireen Mazari, stated that it was the army that sought the assembly with the PTI chief by means of ex-defence minister Pervez Khattak. The army, Mazari stated, had put ahead three proposals to Khan – resignation, no-confidence vote or its withdrawal and recent elections thereafter.
“Let me be clear – I’m stating on file (that the previous) PM didn’t name army for assistance on breaking political impasse,” Mazari posted on Twitter. “Why would Imran Khan give choice of resigning when he had already said categorically and repeatedly he would by no means resign? Is unnecessary! Additionally, Imran Khan had categorically rejected VNC (vote of no confidence) as international regime change conspiracy. So why would he recommend these choices. Absurd!” Mazari added.
A day earlier, Pakistan military’s spokesperson Maj Gen Babar Iftikhar had claimed at a press convention that it was in truth the prime minister’s workplace that had approached the military chief to discover a resolution to the political impasse.
“It’s unlucky that our political management was not prepared to speak to one another. So the military chief and the DG ISI went to the PM’s workplace and three eventualities had been mentioned,” Gen Iftikhar stated, including that the third choice – withdrawal of no-confidence movement after which dissolution of assemblies – was acceptable to the previous PM. The overall additionally said that nothing lower than Khan’s removing by means of voting on no-trust movement was acceptable to his political opponents.
The political disaster in Pakistan had deepened final month after the joint opposition had submitted a no-confidence transfer towards Khan. Khan had misplaced majority within the Nationwide Meeting after his authorities’s main allies abandoned and joined the ranks of the opposition.