Imran Khan accuses Munir of targeting wife, sister under Dacoits & Duffers rule

New Delhi,UPDATED: Sep 13, 2025 00:11 IST

Pakistan’s jailed former prime minister Imran Khan on Friday launched a scathing attack on Army chief Gen Asim Munir, accusing him of targeting women in his family and running the country under what he called the “Dacoits and Duffers Alliance.”

“All the atrocities against me and my family are being committed under orders from Asim Munir. Our country is currently under ‘Asim Law’. Munir has buried all morality, running things under the ‘Dacoits and Duffers Alliance,’” Khan said in a social media post.

The 72-year-old Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) founder, behind bars for more than two years in multiple cases, claimed his only crime was challenging the power of the military establishment.

Khan accused Munir of orchestrating a campaign against his sister Aleema Khan. “My sisters and my wife have nothing to do with politics. Aleema Khan only comes forward to convey my message. The campaign being waged against her is shameful and undeniable proof of the cowardice and fear of the regime imposed on the country,” he said.

He also defended his wife Bushra Begum, saying she has never interfered in politics. “Never once has she asked me to nominate a minister, a ticket-holder, or a senator. She does not send political messages. She is in solitary confinement and has no contact with any political figure outside. She is only having to endure the ordeal of imprisonment because she is my wife,” Khan said.

The PTI founder alleged that Bushra’s health has deteriorated to the point that “she experiences dizziness while walking,” and called her imprisonment “conclusive evidence of the moral and religious degradation of Asim’s regime.”

Drawing a historical comparison, Khan likened Munir to Gen Yahya Khan, claiming that “one man’s ego and lust for power led to a dark era of tyranny and oppression that permanently broke the country apart.”

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With inputs from PTI