Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan on Thursday levelled a number of allegations against India related to interference in Islamabad's affairs.
Imran made the allegations in an interview with Samaa TV on Thursday.
Imran targeted former prime minister Nawaz Sharif, who had gone to the UK for medical treatment late last year. In late September, Sharif, speaking via video-link, declared the "foremost priority" of the opposition parties was to remove the "selected government" and those "who had installed Imran Khan". The claims were interpreted as being a reference to the Pakistan Army, which was accused of helping Imran in the 2018 election.
Imran declared Sharif was playing a "dangerous game" by making allegations against the Army.
"Nawaz Sharif is playing a dangerous game against Pakistan and I am 100% sure that India is supporting him... Why Nawaz Sharif always had a dispute with army chiefs, because he was involved in the corrupt practices and wanted to control them," Imran was quoted as saying by Express Tribune.
Imran further argued it was the Pakistan Army that had prevented the country from breaking up. "Whose interest is it that our army weakens? Our enemies... Look at Libya, Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan, Yemen; the entire Muslim world is ablaze [so] why are we safe? If it weren't for our army, our country would've been in three pieces. India's think tanks say that they want to break Pakistan," Imran was quoted as saying by Dawn.
Imran alleged India "sponsors terrorism" in Pakistan and claimed India was active in Gilgit-Baltistan. Imran then went on to say India was seeking to create a Shia-Sunni conflict.
"We knew for three months, they were aiming for the assassination of Shia and Sunni scholars. Thank God our agencies caught that [and] a terrorist group was busted in Punjab," Imran was quoted as saying by Dawn.
