Defence Minister Khawaja Asif on Friday advised Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) founder Imran Khan to keep his “mouth shut” in order to reduce political tension in the country.
“I think founder PTI wants to increase tension,” said the minister, in the wake of the controversial social media post shared on Khan’s official X — formerly Twitter — account.
A post on X was attributed to the former premier said: “Every Pakistani should study the Hamood ur Rahman Commission Report and get to know who was the true traitor, General Yahya Khan or Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.”
Khawaja Asif said the former PM is trying again to create a situation like that on May 9.
He went on to add that said attempts are being made to retract the tweet related to the former Bangladeshi president.
“Barrister Gauhar [Khan] clarified that the social media team did not seek permission before tweeting,” said the minister, adding that this was the first time that the party had to retract a post on their social media account.
“By exaggerating the tragedy of East Pakistan today, you want to increase the tension,” he said, slamming Khan and his party.
The minister maintained that whether it was in politics or sports, the former premier had stung everyone who had done good to him.
“General [Qamar Javed] Bajwa’s father, General Faiz [Hamid] was his uncle, now [he is] dumping all the debris at them,” said Asif, commenting on Khan’s relationship dynamics with the former military men when he was in power.
Meanwhile, the Federal Investigation Agency’s (FIA) cyber crime team on Thursday decided to initiate action against Khan over his controversial tweet on social media.
To pursue an investigation, the anti-crime body reached Adiala jail late Thursday night, but was turned down for a meeting by Khan.
According to the sources within Adiala jail, the former prime minister refused to become part of the FIA investigation related to the controversial social media post.
Khan refused to answer any questions from the FIA ​​team, said the sources. “I will answer any question in the presence of lawyers,” he added.
On the other hand, PTI Chairman Barrister Gohar said that the post had nothing to do with Khan as he did not see the text of the posts that were uploaded to his account.
“The context and comparison that we drew with 1971 was in a political context and not otherwise — nothing about the army,” the PTI chairman said.
