Imran Khan seeks assist from US lawmaker amidst govt crackdown, audio leaks

Former Pakistan Top Minister Imran Khan, who prior to now held the US liable for his elimination from energy in April 2022, has reportedly reached out to a US lawmaker in search of intervention amidst a central authority crackdown on his celebration’s participants.

The ideas comes from leaked audio circulating on social media, purportedly that includes a dialog between Imran Khan and US lawmaker Maxine Moore Waters. Maxine Moore Waters is a Congresswoman from California. Within the audio, the chief of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) celebration can also be heard urging the USA lawmaker to boost her voice in opposition to “human rights violations” going down in Pakistan.

On this audio, Imran Khan blamed the Pakistan military for toppling his govt which stated was once probably the most strong govt in Pakistan within the final 17 years. He requested the Congresswoman to make sure his claims on her personal if she desires. Imran Khan stated that Pakistan goes via a disaster like by no means ahead of and steered the USA lawmaker to make a remark at the state of affairs of human rights in Pakistan.

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— Mateen Haider (@haider_mateen) Would possibly 20, 2023

The crackdown on PTI started in a while after protesters stormed the military headquarters (GHQ) in Rawalpindi and set fireplace to a corps commander’s place of dwelling in Lahore. Those occasions happened following Imran Khan’s dramatic arrest on Would possibly 9 in reference to a corruption case. His arrest got here someday after the army accused him of constructing unfounded allegations in opposition to a senior officer of the intelligence company, ISI. Imran Khan had claimed that Faisal Naseer, often referred to as ‘Grimy Harry,’ was once curious about earlier assassination makes an attempt in opposition to him and was once liable for the homicide of journalist Arshad Sharif.