MULTAN: Former Paksitan Tehreek-e-Insaaf (PTI) member Jave Hashmi said on Friday that PTI leader Imran Khan intended to have a ‘judicial martial law’ imposed in 2014 during the sit-in in Islamabad.
Hashmi said that during the period of the sit in Khan had assured him that martial law under the judiciary would be imposed. He alleged that the PTI chairman had made a deal with the incoming Chief Justice at the time, Justice Nasirul Mulk, which would result in the PTI coming to power.
According to Hashmi, Khan had said to him, “New CJ would dissolve the assembly and form a government under the Supreme Court, and we would emerge successful in the elections.”
The veteran politician also added that he had regularly seen important personnel at Khan’s house during that period, saying ““I saw (Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee) General Rashad visiting Imran Khan four to five times.”
Hashmi was a close confidant of Imran Khan, having been part of the senior leadership of the PTI in 2014. However he left the party and parted ways with Khan after ending his participation in the 2014 protest movement against the Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif’s government.
