Clean chit to US, Imran now blames Bajwa for removing him as PM

After alleging that the United States was involved in the ‘conspiracy’ of ousting Imran Khan from the Prime Minister post, Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) chief gave a clean chit to America and, instead, blamed former army chief Qamar Javed Bajwa for removing him, the Dawn reported. Khan, who was ousted from his post in April last year, took swipes at Bajwa saying that the former army chief had told the US that PTI Chief is an anti-American. He made these remarks during an interview with US-based international radio broadcaster, Voice of America, aired on Saturday, and a separate televised address on Sunday, according to Dawn. “Whatever happened, now as things unfold, it wasn’t the US who told Pakistan [to oust me]. It was unfortunately, from what evidence has come up, [former army chief] Gen [Qamar Javed] Bajwa who somehow managed to tell the Americans that I was anti-American. And so, it [the plan to oust me] wasn’t imported from there. It was exported from here to there,” Khan told VoA. Interestingly, Khan, who continuously blamed the US for removing him from the PM post, had taken a U-turn from his statements. Meanwhile, in his televised address, Imran Khan termed Gen Bajwa, who retired in November last year, ‘super king’, admitting that his three-and-a-half-year stint in the Prime Minister’s Office was more like of a puppet. “Gen Bajwa had become an expert in everything, including economy, politics, and foreign policy,” Khan alleged.