Two meetings of Imran Khan with General Bajwa

It was the evening of August 18, 2022. President Arif Alvi’s daughter-in-law had invited some of her friends to the President’s House for dinner at eight o’clock in the night, but then at seven o’clock the call came and the President left the President’s House in a private car with only the military secretary. gone.

There was no protocol and security vehicle with him. That night he had his first meeting with Army Chief General Qamar Javed Bajwa after a long delay.

General Bajwa still believes that President Alvi tried with all sincerity, “Imran Khan” was concerned for the army and the country, but Imran Khan did not value his sincerity and thus the problems continued to increase. On August 19, he went to Karachi with his family, but he got a call that afternoon and immediately returned.

He landed at Noor Khan Air Base and was taken in a private car to Army Chief House without protocol and security and stayed there till 1:30 am.

The president also had dinner that night with General Qamar Javed Bajwa. They went to Karachi again the next morning on August 20. The third call came to him in Karachi and a meeting between Imran Khan and General Bajwa was arranged at eight o’clock on the night of August 22 in the President’s House. .

This meeting was very secretive, the gate of the President’s House, the elevator and the President’s residence were completely emptied, four chairs were placed on the dining table and the food was also placed before the arrival of the guests, and this too Care was taken that no one had to ask anyone for food and no one had to get up from the chair to pick up anything. General Bajwa along with Major General Muhammad Irfan arrived at eight o’clock.

Shibli Faraz and General Irfan sat in the waiting room. They did not attend the meeting. The meeting was for 45 minutes and it failed miserably. General Bajwa asked Imran Khan. You think I am Mir Sadiq and Mir Jafar.

Why did you want to meet me again? Imran Khan’s reply was, “I call Nawaz Sharif and Shahbaz Sharif Mir Sadiq and Mir Jafar, not you.” Who will expel QM and suppose even if MQM exits, you are not in Parliament.

PDM will form the government again on the basis of majority, so what will be the use of this exercise? The country will be further destroyed, but Imran Khan insisted that you break the government. These people will be forced to hold elections. General Bajwa refused. However, a deadlock came in the meeting and Imran Khan left the President’s House without eating.

General Bajwa also left the President’s House after a while. The President was very disappointed at the end. People “didn’t plant any bugging devices”, the move was later reported and the army took a crack at it.

The exercise was repeated on September 3 and 8. The President left the President’s House in a private car and had two meetings in Islamabad and Rawalpindi, and Imran Khan had a second meeting with General Bajwa in September.

General Bajwa used to say only one thing during every meeting with the President, “You should sit Imran Khan and Mian Shahbaz Sharif together” All political problems will be solved only through their meeting. Imran Khan’s second meeting with General Bajwa also failed.

However, Imran Khan agreed to meet in the second tier leadership of PTI and Pakistan Muslim League-N and thus the meetings of Ayaz Sadiq and Khawaja Saad Rafiq with Asad Qaiser and Pervez Khattak started. also joined and this formula was fixed ‘The government will resign in December’ Mian Nawaz Sharif’s cases will end and they will come back ‘A caretaker government will be formed for six months’ Elections will be held in June.

Sikandar Sultan Raja will remain the Election Commissioner and General Bajwa will retire after the election. This formula was a win-win situation. Mian Nawaz Sharif’s cases were ending. Imran Khan was getting the election.

The honor of the Election Commissioner was being restored and General Bajwa was being given an eight-month extension, but during this time Shujaat Azim, a common friend of Mian Nawaz Sharif and General Bajwa, mentioned this formula in his evening gathering. I started having discus. It reached the ears of General Bajwa, so he called Malik Muhammad Ahmed. Malik Muhammad Ahmed was leaving Heathrow Airport at that time.

General Bajwa told him “I don’t want to get extension” I am retiring on November 29 “I am not in this formula” Mian Nawaz Sharif also rejected this formula later “He said that my honor should be restored” Should.

I don’t want to go back to the country with any transaction. On the other hand, Imran Khan’s colleagues also explained to him that if you give concessions to Mian Nawaz Sharif, you will be accused of NRO and thus this formula and the House. Both meetings of the President failed.

I asked General Bajwa, “Did you stop Imran Khan from resigning from the National Assembly?” He said, “It is true, I sent a message to Imran Khan after the no-confidence vote. Prime Minister, you are only a match.” The losers’ series is still there.

There is a difference of only two votes between you and the government. “Don’t make the mistake of resigning from the National Assembly. This mistake was made by Khaleda Zia in Bangladesh. Hasina Wajid destroyed her entire party. “You stay in the assembly.” Imran Khan read my message but did not reply and thus my contact with him ended.

After that, I had two meetings with him in August and September.” I asked, “Why did you overthrow Imran Khan’s government?” General Bajwa’s answer was, “We did not overthrow his government.” Our only crime was this. Why didn’t we save their government? Imran Khan wanted us to go ahead and save his government. I would have continued to support Imran Khan and would have retired with honor and farewell to Imran Khan, but I sacrificed my image for the sake of the country.

I made a difficult but right decision.” I asked, “How was this decision right?” His answer was, “Our reading was that these people are dangerous for the country. If this is the case, then the country will not exist.” I asked. “For example, he said, “For example, the Prime Minister said to the Saudi Crown Prince in Punjabi in the cabinet meeting.” And the ambassador started translating these Punjabi words from different people, for example, we kept stopping him from making Shaukat Tareen the finance minister.

I said to the Prime Minister, “Sir, he could not run his own bank, it will destroy the economy, but don’t believe it.” There was a corruption case of 8 billion rupees against Shaukat Tareen in the NAB. We were trapped in FATF and IMF, so we were forced and General Faiz Hameed closed Shaukat Tareen’s case from NAB. He said that Shaukat Tareen has heated up the economy a lot.

The dollar reserves are coming down rapidly. We need your intervention, so we were forced to go to the Prime Minister. Hamad Azhar, Asad Umar, Shaukat Tareen and Raza Baqir were also present in this meeting. Sir you are collecting 53% tax from customs ‘this is wrong’ we will be trapped.

They said this is a good thing, tax revenue is increasing, I said sir, you are collecting rupees by sending dollars out, the country will not be able to run like this, stop Shaukat Tarin, otherwise we will default. .

Raza Baqir confirmed, “The Prime Minister filled the support but did nothing practically.” After the meeting, Asad Umar thanked me and said, “You are right, we have gone on the wrong side.” We were told to do the work today, we should have done it yesterday. (to be continued).