Former Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan has again accused the former army chief, General Qamar Javed Bajwa, of conspiring with the United States to topple his government.

Khan said during a meeting with reporters from foreign media in the city of Lahore that he could not disclose the role of the general earlier for fear of being accused of incitement against the armed forces.

Khan explained that there is a fine line between accusing the army commander, and your accusation being taken as an accusation of the army as a whole, "which I was afraid of falling into, so I waited until General Bajwa's term ended."

He asked the former prime minister from Bajwa to explain to him the reasons that prompted him to change his government, "which was better than its predecessors, then, why replace my government with a government of thieves?", as he described it.

Khan accused the former army commander of overlooking corruption cases exceeding $5 billion involving members of the current government, stressing the need to organize early general elections as soon as possible, "to reach a state of political stability that brings the country to economic stability."


Dissolution of the Punjab government

On the other hand, Imran Khan explained the reasons that prompted him to dissolve two local governments, which equal 66% of the volume of government work in Pakistan, and said regarding the aim of that, "We hope that reason will prevail, and that we will go to general elections to achieve political stability and later economic stability." .

Imran Khan announced last Saturday that his party, the Tehreek-e-Insaf, would dissolve the local parliament in the provinces of Punjab and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa at the end of the week, ahead of schedule, in an attempt to pressure the federal government to hold early general elections.

The Tehreek-e-Insaf party, led by Imran Khan, controls two of the four regional councils in the country, and the other two councils are subject to its political opponents, who also control the federal government led by Prime Minister Shahbaz Sharif, and who have said that they will not hold general and local elections before their scheduled date in November 2023. .

Punjab, which is controlled by Khan's party, is the most populous province in Pakistan, home to nearly half of the country's 220 million people.

Federal and local elections are usually held simultaneously in a general election every 5 years.

However, the early dissolution of the two chambers may lead to a new constitutional crisis in the country.

Separate elections would have to be held for them within 90 days, which could raise legal problems.