Not afraid of army, says Khan

ISLAMABAD: PakistanPrimeMinister Imran Khan has said he is not afraid of the Army as it knows well that he is not corrupt.

He said the Army knows he is not making money and is working hard day and night.

“That is why the army is standing with me. There is no tension whatsoever between the government and the army,” he said.

Khan assured his government was going nowhere and that the agencies knew who was doing what and that was why those who indulged in corruption had fear of the military.

This is the same line that Khan took in Davos in January where he said that his is probably the first government that has been totally supported by the Army.

The secret agencies, he said, were fully aware of the corruption of former prime minister Nawaz Sharif and former president Asif Zardari.

During the previous regimes, he said, expensive power agreements were signed while the power producers were being supplied gas at half its price.

He claimed that the previous 10 years of the two governments had a major role in the country’s present poor economic situation.

He said the country would have defaulted, had Saudi Arabia, UAE and China not supported Pakistan, as in the first year of his government, $10 billion had to be paid back to the donor agencies.

He pointed out that during the Musharraf regime, Pakistan’s total external debt stood at $40 billion, which ballooned to $100 billion in 10 years of PPP and PML-N regimes and the opponents were fully aware of the situation and its implications.