The Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) technical wing sponsored more than 60 public rallies of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) held after May 26, 2022, across the country, claimed journalist Imran Shafqat.
In a recent vlog on his YouTube channel, he said that Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan initiated rallies across Pakistan from May 26, 2022, onward, and about 60 to 70 rallies were held in a series that was sponsored by the technical wing through the money they acquired by blackmailing rich businessmen.
The journalist said that the technical wing is the most horrible wing if misused. He said the main objectives of this wing are to deal with geofencing, IT technology, call recordings, and surveillance. Lt Gen (r) Faiz appointed retired army officers in this wing, he claimed.
He said the setup formulated by Lt Gen (r) Faiz Hameed inside the institution is being broken. Earlier, 30-32 officers of colonel and major rank were taken into custody for interrogation. Now officers of the technical wing are being arrested, he added.
The journalist said that recently two high-ranking officers have been arrested in Bahawalpur, and many have been fired from their jobs and are being interrogated.
He said that Lt Gen (r) Faiz had established his own counter institution inside ISI by appointing his favorite officers. He said that Faiz adopted the strategy of directly approaching junior officers to assign them tasks favoring PTI, adding that this was not practiced in the past. He added that this was the mechanism through which Imran Khan was getting favors and support.
He said that PTI’s various senior leaders, including Shah Mehmood Qureshi, Ali Zaidi, Pervez Khattak, Fawad Chaudhry, and Pervez Elahi, are in contact with the establishment and playing on both sides of the wicket.
He further said that PTI leader Qasim Suri and Yasmeen Rashid left the Lahore rally early, adding that Yasmin Rashid is disheartened since Imran Khan ridiculed her harshly after her call was leaked, in which she was asking President Alvi to convince Imran Khan to surrender before the police to avert any major untoward incident.
If that was the state of play while Bajwa/Faiz were at the helm of the military regime and Imran was playing a fixed round when official policy was to be apolitical its anyone guess how far the current high command needs to work and disengage inside and outside the institution it’s assets in bureaucracy and judiciary to level the playing field before a free and fair election can be called.
Faiz stratagem has to be fully neutralised and it would take till October as Sheikh Rashid has spilled the beans for all the partisan and rogue chess pieces to fall and the nation can choose its representatives in a free and fair manner. Bravo to the apolitical establishment to have seen through and defeated this move of forcing a pre poll rigged election to resurrect project Imran and thwarting it. Saved a lot of heart ache for the nation for another decade.
If we are going to bury this menace that the hybrid regime doctrine created once for all patience will be key. Intelligentsia has to inform the public with the data analysis and facts our key issue that impacts on our survival that is our economy. Without entrusting it in the safest pair of hands for next 5 years in the hand of politicians with policies for reduction of poverty and welfare and not poor governance.
Onus is on the public to ensure their rights are not snatched out of their hands once again when establishment has repented and wants to return the power back to parliament by falling for any stratagem again as it will just prolong the chaos and misery for all of us.