Bushra Bibi submits written statement in protest cases

RAWALPINDI: Bushra Bibi, the wife of Imran Khan, has submitted a written statement to police as part of an investigation into 10 cases related to the violent protests of November 26.

The statement was handed over to investigating officers who visited Adiala Jail for questioning. A team of investigators, led by Inspector Raja Iftikhar Ali Shah and including Inspectors Mumtaz, Sabtain, Rashid Kiani, Yaqub Shah, and Muhammad Afzal, visited Adiala Jail to interrogate Bushra Bibi.

However, she provided them with copies of a written statement prepared in consultation with her lawyer. In her statement, Bushra Bibi asserted that she had lived her entire life under the law and the Constitution.

She claimed that she had been maliciously implicated in the case without legal justification to serve hidden political objectives. “I am the spouse and former first lady of the founding chairman of the country’s most popular political party, Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf. My involvement in this case is purely a political vendetta carried out at the behest of my husband’s political opponents,” she said. She alleged that the case was intended to mentally torment and politically retaliate against her husband, who, according to her, had dedicated his life to upholding the supremacy of the law and Constitution.

“He has never engaged in any unconstitutional or unlawful activity,” she said. Bushra Bibi also claimed that other members of her husband’s family had been implicated in false cases due to political rivalry, asserting that her case was similarly baseless.”I have never participated, directly or indirectly, in any illegal or unconstitutional activity. This case is a result of a well-planned conspiracy aimed at achieving nefarious objectives. I have no connection to the alleged incident,” she maintained. Referring to a statement attributed to her on November 19, she argued that it was in line with the Constitution and the law.

“That is why no legal action was taken against me at the time or in the days following, until the registration of this case,” she explained.She also emphasised that both she and her husband were entitled to all constitutional and legal rights as Pakistani citizens.