Political analyst Nusrat Javed on Monday revealed that former Prime Minister (PM) Imran Khan called leaders of his party "cowards" three times during his interaction with party members at Adiala Jail in Rawalpindi.

 

Appearing on Public TV's Khabar Nashar, Javed said that the founder of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI), Imran Khan, stayed firm on his call for a civil disobedience movement. “I have a strategy. Civil disobedience movement will be successful, but they [the party leadership] are cowards,” Javed quoted imprisoned Imran Khan as saying. 

 

The veteran journalist stated that former Foreign Minister and PTI leader Shah Mahmood Qureshi complained to Imran Khan about the behaviour of party members for not showing moral support to incarcerated leaders, including Yasmin Rashid, who has been jailed for more than a year.

 

“PTI leadership never visited jailed party leaders, including Omar Sarfraz Cheema [former Punjab Governor], and they had never appeared at their hearings,” the former foreign minister complained to Imran Khan.

 

Imran agreed with Shah Mahmood Qureshi and called party leadership “cowards” again, Nusrat Javed claimed. 

 

Javed further claimed that former Premier Imran Khan spent a lot of time with former PTI leader Fawad Chaudhry during a meeting in Adiala Jail Rawalpindi.

 

Faisal Chaudhry, counsel for Imran Khan, while appearing on ARY News programme KHABAR on Monday, confirmed that Shah Mahmood Qureshi had a long conversation with the party founder in Adiala Jail Rawalpindi.

 

On being asked about the civil disobedience movement, Chaudhry said that Imran Khan would announce the next action plan in the coming days.

 

Last week Imran Khan warned the government on X (formerly Twitter) that his party will begin a civil disobedience movement if two demands, including the formation of a judicial commission for a transparent investigation of May 9, 2023, and November 26, 2024, and the release of under-trial political prisoners are not met.

 
“If these two demands are not accepted, a civil disobedience movement will be launched from December 14,” the founder of the former ruling party warned, adding that the government would be responsible for the results of the movement.