LONDON: After the recent audio leak of PTI chairman Imran Khan, Defence minister Khawaja Asif believes that Article 6 of the Constitution, which pertains to high treason, applies to the former prime minister. To a question on the government’s plans to move against the PTI chief, the minister said that the recent audio makes it an “ideal situation” to register an Article 6 case against the former premier.

The minister, while speaking to journalists in London, said that he was the only Pakistani on whom an Article 6 case was registered on the cabinet’s order during Imran Khan’s tenure.

“You must have heard Bashir Memon’s (interview) in which he said that the case does not apply to him. But a case is liable on him, as he’s confessing everything himself,” said Asif.

“In order to cling to power, Khan put Pakistan’s national security at risk. In Pakistan’s 75-year history, no politician has put Pakistan’s security at risk,” said Asif.

Published in The Daily National Courier, October, 01 2022

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