Imran Khan, who was ousted through a vote of no-confidence in April last year, has made multiple privileges about his government’s exclusion. He had since spoken about foreign intrigues, allegedly instigated by the United States, with claims of connivance on the now ruling Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM) coalition in the Centre and Gen (retd) Bajwa — who retired as the head of the military on November 29, 2022.

Thumping the ex-army chief for, what he claims, favoring the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N), Khan said: “Ishaq Dar, Nawaz Sharif’s sons, and Shehbaz Sharif’s son-in-law flee during his tenure. In the beginning, there were a lot of doubts, we couldn’t appreciate.”

The former prime minister went on to say that “Gen Bajwa would say one thing and another was trendy on the ground”. He added that while the former army chief claimed to remain neutral, the agencies were creating divisions within his party.

“This plan was made in the summer of 2021, after which the work on it began,” he said, recapping his claim of Gen Bajwa hiring Pakistan’s former ambassador to the US Husain Haqqani for the lobby in America during Khan’s regime.