ISLAMABAD: Former prime minister and PTI Chairman Imran Khan has said that the authorities are forcing his chief of staff Shahbaz Gill to say that i told him to make anti-army remarks that landed the latter into a sedition case which Gill is currently facing.
“They are forcing him to say that I was the one who told him to say that,” The Guardian quoted the former prime minister as saying when asked for comments on Gill’s case.
Gill has been behind bars since last Tuesday — for inciting mutiny among the public against the army — and was hospitalised in between due to health concerns.
However, Khan claimed that his aide was targeted because he had advised army officers against obeying unlawful commands.
Speaking about Gill’s alleged torture in custody, Khan said that Gill was beaten and “psychologically broken.”
“What they’re doing to Gill is sending a message to everyone,” the publication reported Khan as saying, alleging that the authorities have scared the PTI workers as social media activists have been abducted.
Khan, whose tenure featured extrajudicial killings of dissidents and threats against journalists, said that his regime “never tried to oppress the media.”
