{"id":15607,"date":"2022-07-17T03:11:37","date_gmt":"2022-07-17T03:11:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/undergroundnews.co.uk\/?p=15607"},"modified":"2022-07-17T03:11:39","modified_gmt":"2022-07-17T03:11:39","slug":"imran-khan-terms-u-turns-crucial-for-political-leaders-generals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/undergroundnews.co.uk\/?p=15607&lang=en","title":{"rendered":"Imran Khan terms &#8216;U-turns&#8217; crucial for political leaders, generals"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Mishaal Arshad C.M Underground News<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>Imran Khan says mistakes happen, and if you know that you have made a mistake, take a step back<\/strong><\/li><li><strong>\u201cIncreasing distances between the army and the nation will be a loss for Pakistan and its armed force,\u201d says Khan.<\/strong><\/li><li><strong>PTI leader reiterates that his struggle is to get rid of Sharif and Zardari families.<\/strong><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity is-cnvs-separator-id-1658027281753\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>ISLAMABAD: PTI Chairman Imran Khan on Saturday termed \u201cU-turns\u201d crucial for political leaders and generals and insisted the country could not afford a \u201cweak\u201d army.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Addressing a seminar in the federal capital, the former prime minister said mistakes happen, and one should take a step back to reconsider that they have made a mistake.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The ex-premier said the country could not afford a \u201cweak army\u201d as it is the nation\u2019s asset.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIncreasing distances between the army and the nation would be a loss for Pakistan and its armed force both,\u201d said Khan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The PTI leader reiterated that his struggle was to get rid of the Sharif and Zardari families from the political front \u201cwho have been taking turns to rule the country for the past 30 years.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cPakistan has been ruled half the time by these two families and half the time by the dictators,\u201d said Khan, claiming that all the dictators in the past weakened the country\u2019s institutions and put fear above the law.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The former PM said freedom of expression was crucial for any nation, and no society can thrive without it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Khan asserted the media was never a threat to him, nor he took any action against it during his tenure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI have never done anything wrong and never stole anything from the nation. I will not allow others to do it as well,\u201d said the PTI chairman.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Those families (Sharifs and Zardaris) controlled the media and judiciary to cover their corruption, he added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Talking about the missing person\u2019s case, Khan said he had spoken to the Chief of Army Staff (COAS) General Qamar Javed Bajwa and Lieutenant General Faiz Hameed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThey have said that the case is being taken to the court,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mishaal Arshad C.M Underground News Imran Khan says mistakes happen, and if you know that you have made&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":15614,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"csco_singular_sidebar":"","csco_page_header_type":"","csco_appearance_grid":"","csco_page_load_nextpost":"","csco_post_video_location":[],"csco_post_video_location_hash":"","csco_post_video_url":"","csco_post_video_bg_start_time":0,"csco_post_video_bg_end_time":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76,71,38],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-15607","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-important-news","8":"category-latest-news","9":"category-pakistan","10":"cs-entry","11":"cs-video-wrap"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/undergroundnews.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15607","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/undergroundnews.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/undergroundnews.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/undergroundnews.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/undergroundnews.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15607"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/undergroundnews.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15607\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15615,"href":"https:\/\/undergroundnews.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15607\/revisions\/15615"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/undergroundnews.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/15614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/undergroundnews.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/undergroundnews.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/undergroundnews.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}