Former federal minister and PTI leader Fawad Chaudhry on Wednesday admitted that by not remaining in contact with the military leadership on the instructions of the former prime minister and PTI founder Imran Khan he made a ‘mistake’, reported 24NewsHD TV channel.
In an interview with the Voice of America (VOA), he claimed that the PTI’s present leadership was opposed to Imran’s release from the Adiala Jail.
Fawad said categorically that he was in the PTI and would remain its part.
He revealed that it was the PTI founder who asked him to leave the party when he had told him that he was being tortured during detention.
Separately talking to the media at the premises of an anti-terrorism court (ATC) in Lahore, the former federal minister said he had come to show solidarity with incarcerated PTI leaders Dr. Yasmin Rashid, Omar Sarfaraz Cheema and Ejaz Chaudhry.
He said that the people of Pakistan would lose if Imran Khan did not succeed.
Fawad said that when he had not left the PTI, how the question of returning to the party could arise.
When asked whether he would enjoy the same status in the PTI, which he enjoyed prior to the ouster of the party’s government in April 2022, the former federal minister said to him posts did not matter; what was necessary was the PTI founder’s success.
He lamented that the hearing of bail applications of PTI leaders had not been held for the last 14 months. “It is a gross injustice,” he said, adding, “Similarly, keeping PTI leaders and workers in jails without holding their trials is a joke.”
Today, Fawad went on to say, 85 per cent of members of the USA’s House of Representatives had refused to accept the February 8 general elections’ results. “The House has said that the complaints of rigging must be investigated.”
“This will certainly result in complications for the present government,” he predicted.
PTI leader further said that nobody from the European Union and the UK had congratulated Shehbaz Sharif on becoming the PM because they knew that he was the product of Form-47.
He went on to say that today Pakistan was isolated in the comity of nations.