ISLAMABAD The former prime minister revealed that he had written the piece, as reported by The News on Tuesday, following the controversy surrounding Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) founder Imran Khan’s article in the UK magazine The Economist a few days earlier.
“I accept full responsibility for the piece that was recently published in The Economist,” he remarked to reporters informally at the Adiala Jail in Rawalpindi’s courtroom.
He answered in the affirmative when Geo News questioned if he wrote the article, adding that he had dictated it.
He added that his party will post his new “speech” on “social media” starting “next week.”
In response to the Geo News reporter’s inquiry about the format of the speech—audio or video—Khan said, “We live in an artificial intelligence era.”
In response to a query on elections, the founder of the PTI stated that national surveys ought to be conducted promptly even if his party’s participation process had been extremely challenging. He emphasized that elections had to be held nonetheless.
“Political stability and the nation’s economy depend heavily on elections.”
“We have encountered challenges in running for office, but the elections ought to take place on schedule,” he continued.
“These people are conducting an inquiry against me regarding the May 9 incidents,” declared the former prime minister. There is a plot against us on May 9. Who took the GHQ and Corps Commander’s House attack and the CCTV footage of my detention from the Islamabad High Court? Locate the thieves of CCTV footage,
