Imran removed Munir as ISI chief after raising issue of wife’s corruption: Sharif

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Islamabad, May 22 (Hindustan). Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif said on Monday that his predecessor Imran Khan had removed current army chief General Asim Munir as ISI chief in 2019 after the intelligence chief presented evidence of corruption linked to his wife.

Munir was the chief of Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), Pakistan’s intelligence agency. In 2019, then Prime Minister Khan replaced Munir with Lt Gen Faiz Hameed as ISI chief.

Addressing the National Assembly on Monday, Prime Minister Sharif said, “I say this with full responsibility that the current Army Chief (Munir) when he was the DG (Director General) ISI, told the then Prime Minister (Khan) that his wife Bushra Bibi is involved in corruption. He said this on the basis of facts.

The Prime Minister said, but apparently Khan was incensed by this and did not like it. the rest is history. Khan, chairman of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party, in a recent tweet rejected a report in UK newspaper The Daily Telegraph which claimed that Munir was removed from the post by Khan due to personal differences. I went.

The news claimed that Khan removed Munir in June 2019, eight months after his appointment, because he wanted to investigate his wife and people close to him for corruption.

“The news claims that I forced General Asim to resign as DG ISI because he raised corruption cases against my wife Bushra Begum,” Khan tweeted. This is completely false. Neither General Asim showed me any evidence of my wife’s corruption nor did I ask him to resign because of this.