Former Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan after reaching Lahore’s Liberty Chowk where his party’s ‘Haqeeqi Azadi’ (Real freedom) march to Islamabad is set to commence, said that he knows a lot of things about DG ISI, but is quiet only because he doesn’t want to harm the country.
“DG ISI open your ears and listen, I know a lot of things, but I am quiet only because I don’t want to harm my country… I do constructive criticism for betterment otherwise there was a lot I could say,” the PTI chief in a speech at the chowk said.
Speaking to cheering crowds at Liberty Chowk, Imran said that unlike Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) supremo Nawaz Sharif, he was "not a runaway who would either sit quietly here [in Pakistan] or criticize the military in London".
"I am not going to leave this country. I will live and die in this country," added the PTI chief.
“I want to see a Pakistan that is free, and to have a free country you need a powerful military,” he said, adding that,
“If your military is weakened, then the country loses its freedom”.
“So DG ISI sir, when we criticize you, we do constructive criticism; we do it for your own good,” said Imran as he noted that “we do not wish to hurt our country”.
"And I repeat myself," he continued,
"I could say a lot more, I could even answer you back. But I do not want that the institutions of the country to be weakened".