Imran Khan continues to engage in a vile, sinister & malicious campaign against COAS General Syed Asim Munir: PM Shehbaz  

Says people of Pakistan & political parties stand behind their Army Chief & the armed forces like a rock & will thwart any attempt and conspiracy at undermining their prestige, honour & integrity

ISLAMABAD, July 09 (SABAH): Prime Minister Mian Muhammad Shehbaz Sharif has said that  Imran Khan continues to engage in a vile, sinister and malicious campaign against Chief of the Army Staff (COAS) General Syed Asim Munir.

“His trick of using the proxies to threaten the Army Chief of an assassination attempt has been badly exposed. After his methodically planned attack on the State symbols failed, he is clearly desperate and wants to coerce his way back into power, little knowing that the time of his politics of intimidation, violence and hatred is over” PM Shehbaz Sharif said in a statement issued on twitter on Sunday.

PM Shehbaz Sharif said that through such highly condemnable antics, he is only exposing himself, the core of which is defined by putting his personal interest (power grab) over everything else.  

PM Shehbaz Sharif said that the people of Pakistan and the political parties stand behind their Army Chief and the armed forces like a rock and will thwart any attempt and conspiracy at undermining their prestige, honour and integrity.

Meanwhile Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has strongly condemned a “campaign” on social media for the attempt on Army Chief General Syed Asim Munir’s life. In his statement, the premier said a similar campaign was launched for May 9 vandalism. He warned the “planners, facilitators and handlers of May 9 incident” that every conspiracy against Pakistan and its institutions would be crushed with iron hand.

He said that the vile, malicious and evil media campaign against the army chief and the army is the brainchild of an evil mind.

Conspirators and anti-state elements are again active to destabilise the country politically and economically. The media campaign against martyrs is part of the ongoing malicious drive, Shehbaz added.

The prime minister directed the institutions concerned to take legal action against the media campaigners at home and abroad.

He said the media campaign against the army and its chief does not fall under the category of freedom of expression. “It is only a conspiracy which should be crushed with full force,” he continued.

“The nation will foil this heinous conspiracy the same way it foiled the conspiracy of civil war in the country on May 9. Desperate elements will not be allowed to create a new crisis in the country. The nation is standing with its army and its chief,” PM Shehbaz Sharif concluded.