Defence Minister and senior PML-N leader Khawaja Asif has announced that the government is mulling to ban former prime minister Imran Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) following planned and coordinated violent attacks carried out on the military installations on May 9.
Talking to newsmen in Islamabad on Wednesday, Khawaja Asif, however, said that no such decision has yet been taken but it is under consideration.
Khawaja Asif said although the decision to ban Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) had not been taken as yet, but it was on the cards.
He alleged that the crimes committed on May 9 were pre-planned. “Which crime PTI workers did not commit on that day,” Asif said, adding, “PTI carried out attacks on state assets on May 9.”
He went on to say that attacks on army and government buildings were PTI Chairman Imran Khan’s last ploy. “Imran considers Pakistan Army his enemy,” the minister said, and claimed that preparations for the acts of violence witnessed on that day had been underway for the last one year.
He said that some PTI leaders confessed that what had happened on May 9 had been planned beforehand. “There were jubilations all over India following incidents of vandalism and arson,” he recalled.
