I will quit politics if proved ISI funded PTI: Imran

PTI will never allow the use of Pakistan Army against the country's own people, Imran writes on Twitter.


Zainab Imam February 02, 2012

KARACHI: Pakistan Tehrik-e-Insaf Chairman Imran Khan has thrown down the gauntlet, that he will quit politics if it is proven that his party has been funded by the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) agency.

Ever since his party’s massive rallies in Lahore and Karachi, critics have questioned where the PTI is getting its money from. Many say it is an ‘establishment’ darling and is receiving funding from intelligence agencies.

“I will quit politics if proved that the ISI funded PTI (sic),” Imran wrote on microblogging website Twitter on Thursday.

Imran and other leaders from his party, including Shah Mahmood Qureshi, have claimed that the party receives generous funding from overseas Pakistanis, like Imran’s other successful projects such as Namal College in Imran’s home constituency Mianwali and the Shaukat Khanum Memorial Cancer Hospital in Lahore.

Imran further wrote that his party will never allow the use of Pakistan Army against the country’s own people. “We need to stop this War on Terror which in effect is a war of terror orchestrated by the US (sic),” he wrote.

COMMENTS (71)

adnan jabbar | 12 years ago | Reply

I do not know I S I is funding to P T I or not if I S I is funding to P T I so what is the problem with all Others major parties, Pakistanis have seen last sixty years the corruption, unemployment,3 wars with india including Kargil,2 wars as a partner with americans in afaghanistan our education System, Our health System, Law & order System & many more. Where we stand after sixty years Even our political parties making correct 1973 constitution after 31 years Pakistanis have tried all the parties in 60 years now this is the time to give chance to P T I chairman imran khan due to only one reason because if he says after becoming prime minister he will do half the things which he said so that would be 100% development in Pakistan History So if I S I is funding to P T I others political parties would have problem for powers but not a single Pakistani.

AIM | 12 years ago | Reply

Imran Khan is needed..no one else could put Pakistan back on track..but I see a danger in this statement of his..it could lead to the fabrication of false document, statements that: yes he did receive funding..Imran is seen as a danger to the way things are..Greed is a thing which sits deep within the heart of man..and with enough money anything can be bought..including false testimony..so care has to be taken..and he has to be careful and not get to cocky or it could backfire and Pakistan cannot afford to lose him. He is the only one who has the ability to "fix" the country..JMHO

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