Marwat says Imran confided to him about Fawad’s ‘shady role in regime change saga’

LONDON: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf’s (PTI) firebrand leader Sher Afzal Marwat has fired a fresh salvo against former party member Fawad Chaudhry, saying that PTI founder Imran Khan had told him the former federal minister’s “shady” role in the regime change operation.

“The PTI founder himself told me that Fawad’s role in the regime change operation was suspicious,” Marwat said, adding that according to the incarcerated party founder, Fawad was in “cohort” with then-army chief General Qamar Javed Bajwa.

Marwat said that the claim Fawad had been making that he joined Jahangir Tareen and Aleem Khan’s group on Khan’s orders was in fact a big lie. Stressing that the PTI looks at the former member’s role with “suspicion”, Marwat said: “He [Fawad] was working against the party’s interests and also serving as a messenger for conveying messages to General Bajwa.”

“People like them fled when the party needed them,” he added.

Marwat said that cases lodged against the former PTI member were, in fact, a mere eyewash. “He was only arrested as it has [served] as a pretext for a way back into the former ruling party,” said the outspoken PTI leader. “If he comes back into the party, then what is the fault of the rest.”

“It is also true that Fawad spent his days behind bars in VIP jails as he had a setting,” Marwat said, adding that the former PTI member was an uninvited guest who was speaking against the party.

Revealing that the PTI founder has summoned him for a meeting, the politician said that he would meet Khan as soon he gets back to Pakistan. “I will meet the PTI founder by July 15 or 16,” Marwat, who is in Britain these days, said.