ISLAMABAD: It is rare to see such a strong statement from the army high command as issued by the ISPR on Wednesday. “We will not forget, we will not forgive” – the press release did not say this at all, but this is a clear message for PTI Chairman Imran Khan. A press release issued after the three-day formation commanders’ conference made it clear that the Army will neither forget the May 9 black day nor forgive anyone involved, be it the planners, the attackers or the attackers. Come on. Military commanders have also signaled that they will not tolerate anyone trying to rescue those involved in the May 9 attacks. Pointedly, he said, “The forum also decided that attempts by any quarter to create obstacles and to defeat the nefarious designs of the enemy forces will be dealt with with an iron hand.” This is a message to IK facilitators in the judiciary, suggested a senior journalist on a TV talk show on Wednesday night. The Army is determined not to compromise the trial of all those who attacked military installations, buildings, insignia, etc. under the Army Act and the Official Secrets Act. Similarly, no amount of propaganda to hide the “ugly faces” of all involved, no campaign of human rights violations “to create a smokescreen” can protect the perpetrators from impunity. What the top leadership of PTI, including Imran Khan, should now be seriously alarmed by is that the time has come for the “planners” and “masterminds” of the May 9 attack.
An ISPR press release warned, “It is further emphasized that while legal trials of criminals and instigators have begun, now is the time to prosecute hate mongers and political subversives.” The grip of law should also be tightened around the planners and masterminds. The state and state institutions to fulfill their nefarious ambitions of creating chaos in the country. Some senior ministers of the present government have already said that PTI chairman Imran Khan may be prosecuted under the Army Act for allegedly planning the May 9 attacks. Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has also said more than once that Imran Khan blamed his followers for causing such mayhem on May 9. was provoked.
After being removed from the post of Prime Minister, Imran Khan made the mistake of calling the army as his enemy, making all sorts of accusations against senior military personnel and running numerous campaigns against the institution and its high command on his social media. . More seriously, Khan misjudged and misjudged the outcome of the May 9 attack on the Pakistani military. He refrained from condemning the attack, tried to blame others, floated conspiracy theories and then launched attacks on the Army and its chief.
Soon after May 9, everyone started speculating that Imran Khan’s politics was over, at least for the next few years. But his post-May 9 statements and allegations against the army and the army chief seem to have sealed his political future. Imran has already lost dozens of his party leaders. He is bound to lose more after ISPR’s latest announcement. Khan is now using all his contacts abroad to invite American pressure on Pakistan and the Pakistani military to bail them out of the situation they have found themselves in because of their own actions. Unfortunately for him, there is also a campaign against him due to the nature of the sanctions and pressure that his party is asking from Washington against Pakistan and the Pakistani military.
