Imran Khan will be tried in military court, says Pakistan's interior minister

May 30, 2023 23:58

Imran Khan

Pakistan's Interior Minister Rana Sanaullah on Tuesday said that Imran Khan will be tried in a military court as the former prime minister was the "architect" of the May 9 incidents in which military and state installations were attacked by his party workers following his arrest in a corruption case.

Appearing on a Dawn News show, Sanaullah also accused the 70-year-old chief of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf party of personally carrying out the planning of the attacks on military installations before his arrest on the day.

There was evidence to prove the claim as well, the minister added.

When asked if Khan would be tried in the military court, he said: "Absolutely, why shouldn't it? The programme that he made to target the military installations and then had it executed, in my understanding it absolutely is a case of a military court."

The minister accused Khan of personally orchestrating the May 9 riots.

"His supporters chanted a slogan that 'Imran Khan is our red line', and the planning and preparation were done on Imran Khan's initiative and instigation. He carried it all out. He is the architect of all this discord," he said.

"(The evidence) is documented, it is in tweets and his messages," he added. -- PTI

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