ISLAMABAD: The government has been informed by an intelligence agency that what unfolded on May 9 and 10 was conceived and planned long before the actual day of the event with the involvement of Imran Khan. .
The report states that most of the PTI leaders were not aware of the alleged “plan”, which was kept secret and only a few trusted loyalists (named in the report) knew about it and that was Imran Khan. were the means of conveying the instructions to the party cadre. .
The intelligence agency, quoting its sources in PTI, alleged that IK had given specific instructions to target pre-selected places/locations in case of his arrest. On May 9, Murad Saeed through his tweets told the same to the party leaders and directed to start protests at designated places.
Imran Khan has repeatedly distanced himself and his party from the May 9 attacks. Instead, he insisted that the PTI had a history of peaceful protests and alleged that agencies were behind the mayhem that paved the way for the banning of the PTI. Imran Khan also demanded an independent investigation to find out the facts behind the May 9 incidents. JEE News contacted PTI spokesperson Sadaqat Ali Abbasi for his views on the intelligence agency’s report. Abbasi categorically denied that the May 9 attacks were pre-planned or that there was any such directive from Imran Khan. He said that being the main leader of PTI of Rawalpindi region, no such direction was ever directed towards him and that is why he led a peaceful protest in front of Rawalpindi Press Club at Liaquat Bagh.
On the other hand, Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has already taken the name of Imran Khan that he is ready to incite his followers for May 9 mayhem.
While discussing the events of May 9-10, the intelligence reports discussed the closeness of Asad Umar, Murad Saeed and Azam Swati to Imran Khan and also the role of Dr. Yasmin Rashid, Hamad Azhar and Aun Abbas Bapi in Punjab. Saeed and Umar Ayub in KP, Ali Zaidi in Sindh, Ali Nawaz Awan in Islamabad and Qasim Suri in Balochistan.
According to the intelligence agency, since being ousted from power, Imran Khan has tried to create an aggressive but false narrative that ranges from international collusion to assassination plots to oust him from power. were created by domestic intelligence agencies. It added that Khan created so much hatred among his followers that they started openly maligning the army and its senior leadership, especially on various social media platforms. The intelligence agency report said that this was the starting point of Imran Khan’s calculated move to pit the people against his own army.
The security agency points out that through his continuous inflammatory speeches and statements, Imran Khan made a “deliberate attempt” to discredit senior military officers, including the Army Chief, DGISI and DGC. And in some cases even by name.
The agency also revealed that Imran Khan was so disappointed in a meeting held to review the performance of the PTI Rawalpindi chapter regarding the organization of the May 6 rally that he sternly admonished the concerned chapter. That they should end their rally at Murir Chowk instead of taking it to Kachhari Chowk. (near Army House) within the cantonment area.
According to the agency report, as Khan was well aware that the majority of the party’s first and second-tier leadership could not resort to violent protests in the event of his arrest, he mobilized his confidants, including members of the Imran Tigers and the ISF. Devised a mechanism to communicate directly with die-hard loyalists. Workers through various online applications like Raabta App and imrantiger.com.
It was also reported that Imran Khan developed the organization of the party to the level of union council so that the capacity of the party could be mobilized at short notice. He used to take an oath from his supporters to stand by him in all circumstances and follow his instructions.
Imran Khan expected the masses to join the violent protests in large numbers. He was convinced by some of his advisers that the country would be in total chaos and the government, including the military leadership, would be on its knees and able to dictate its own terms.
They were probably encouraged by the restraint shown by the military leadership and mistakenly assumed that the army was too weak to sustain their pressure. He was also given the impression that as people gathered around military installations, there would be sabotage from within the institution.
The intelligence agency discussed it on the international dimension as well. It said some Western mouthpieces such as Zalmay Khalilzad (US) with their known links to the US deep state are campaigning for IK. Some independent observers, who keep a close eye on ongoing developments, see some scheme in the way the IMF has been treating Pakistan in the past few months, the agency reported to the government, adding that it seems That some international powers wanted to default Pakistan. In an effort to maintain the crisis in the country.
