Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) senior leaders admitted that Imran Khan’s repeated derogatory posts on X against the military led to a strong reaction from the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) on Friday.
“When we do it so consistently, again and again, what would we expect from the other side?” a senior PTI figure told the media.
He added that if one starts counting, “maybe a hundred times harsh language was used against the military command from Khan’s X account during the last two years.”
On Friday, ISPR Director General (DG) Lt Gen Ahmed Sharif Chaudhry said that a single man’s narrative has become a threat to national security.
While addressing a press conference, DG ISPR Lt Gen Ahmed Sharif Chaudhry said, “We do not want to become part of politics.” He also highlighted respect for all political parties and reaffirmed that the army does not carry the flag of any political party.
Without naming Imran Khan, he said that one person has become a threat to national security and believes, “If I am not here, nothing exists.” He emphasised that the Pakistan Army works solely for national security and does not represent any political agenda, ethnicity, or political ideology.
He added that the uniform is a source of pride and honour, while some individuals are prisoners of their own ego.
The DG ISPR recalled how Imran had been “spinning this narrative by trying to stop remittances to Pakistan so that the country defaults.”
“He then writes a letter to the International Monetary Fund (IMF), asking it not to enter into any agreement with the country so that the state could default. He then resorts to civil disobedience, does not pay electricity bills, so that anarchy is spread in the country. Let me give you another example from a few days ago: He (Imran) tells his followers to target the leadership of the army, the army which stood against an economy and an armed forces eight times bigger than it was during Operation Bunyan-um-Marsoos and Marka-i-Haq. And doing so, they gained respect for the nation.”
