Former Pakistan prime minister says there are plans to rearrest him and reiterates call to followers to hold peaceful protests
Pakistan’s former prime ministerhas been granted bail in several more cases as he continues to allege that the country’s powerful military plans to rearrest him imminently.
The previous day, his wife Bushra Bibi had been granted bail in a corruption case, after Khan alleged in a series of tweets that the military planned to arrest her as part of plan to “humiliate” him. “When the nation decides that it won’t tolerate this oppression, when it decides that it won’t allow the violation of the constitution and that it wants elections – then no one will be able to stop them,” said Khan in his broadcast.
However, some in Khan’s party appeared rattled by his vehement anti-military rhetoric, which is unprecedented in a country where the power of the military is seen as absolute. ‘“We can change political parties but we cannot change our army. I have never gone against the army nor will I do it in the future,” said a former PTI minister Mahmood Baqi in a press conference announcing he was leaving the party.
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