Maulana Fazlur Rehman claims Imran Khan was ousted on Gen Bajwa’s directives

Maulana Fazlur Rehman claims that Imran Khan was ousted on Gen Bajwa’s directives

The explosive claims were made by Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam (JUI-F) chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman in a tell-all interview on Samaa TV programme ‘Nadeem Malik Live,’ on Thursday.

JUF Chief claimed that former army chief Gen Qamar Javed Bajwa and Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) former director general Lt Gen (retd) Faiz Hameed who was the then-Peshawar corps commander, guided all political parties regarding the no-confidence vote against former prime minister Imran Khan and his government.

 

“I was personally against the no-confidence move, but if I had said no despite the insistence of other parties, then an impression would’ve been given that I ‘saved’ the PTI founder”, Moaulana said.

He went on to add: “While the PPP was running the movement for a no-confidence motion, Lt Gen (retd) Faiz Hamid told me that I could do whatever I wanted, but within the system.”

The JUI-F chief claimed that Faiz Hamid told him that he could not “do anything outside the system,” which meant that every move should be made inside the parliament, not on the streets.

“But I rejected his directions,” he said but noted that later on, the Balochistan Awami Party (BAP), MQM-P, and others left the PTI-led government.

“When they said that [the anti-PTI] is now in the majority, I had to agree with them otherwise it would’ve been said that I helped save Imran Khan,” the JUI-F chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman, who has rejected the February 8 election results, said.