ISLAMABAD: Incarcerated former PM Imran Khan’s wife Bushra Bibi has been charged on Saturday (23rd of November, 2024) for delivering inflammatory speech insinuating that KSA was behind toppling PTI government.
Four FIRs have been registered against her in different districts of Punjab U/S 126 of the PPC and article 29 of the Telegraph Act, 1885. It is claimed in the FIRs that her comments were against the foreign policy, high-level affairs and mutual public interest of Pakistan and KSA, had harmed the sentiments of citizens and amounted to a conspiracy against the country.
Before the proclaimed day of do-or-die march to the capital (on 24th Nov), former 1st lady Bushra Bibi, who used to accompany her husband, the then PM, during foreign visits (from 2018 to 2021), claimed on 21st Nov that after Imran Khan arrived barefooted to visit Medina, Bajwa started getting calls about ex-premier.
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BB stated: “When he returned, Bajwa started getting calls ‘who have you brought into power? We’re abolishing Sharia in this country, and you have brought a proponent of Sharia. We don’t want him’.” According to her, since IK did not want Bajwa to be questioned about the barefoot pilgrimage and sharia matter, he never made the matter public.
While the unexpected development baffled the PTI office-bearers (who are busy with their plans to protest at D-Chowk here on Sunday, 24th November) Imran Khan promptly took to the X to state that he had excellent relations with Saudi Arabia and Bushra BB’s statement was deliberately taken out of context to draw KSA into a needless controversy:
“November 24th is the day to break free from slavery. The rule of law, constitution, and human rights are suspended in Pakistan, forcing the nation to come out to protest and make sacrifices. The nation must decide whether to wear the yoke of slavery like Bahadur Shah Zafar or to adorn the crown of freedom like Tipu Sultan.
“I have excellent relations with Saudi Arabia. When I was attacked in Wazirabad, one of the first calls I received was , through the embassy, from HRH Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. Saudi Arabia has always stood by us in difficult times. Only two weeks prior to our government being toppled, we held a very successful OIC foreign minister’s conference in Islamabad, which would have been impossible to do had Saudi Arabia not supported and stood with us.
“Bushra Bibi’s statement was deliberately taken out of context to draw our brotherly country KSA into a needless controversy. She didn’t mention Saudi Arabia at all. My government was toppled through conspiracies, all orchestrated by General Bajwa. I tried to have these investigated though the Chief Justice and General Tariq Khan, but General Bajwa did not allow that to happen.
“Bushra Bibi has no connection with politics; she only conveyed my message to the nation, as my wife, regarding the November 24th protest. The nation would focus on the November 24th protest. God willing, you will emerge victorious”.
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