Saudi Kingdom, US and Kayani brought PMLN to power in 2013: PTI official

Saudi Arabia, United States and then army chief General Kayani had engineered 2013 elections in favour of PML-N, said Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Information Secretary Naeemul Haque, in a rather astonishing statement yesterday.

“Former chief of the army staff General Ashfaq Pervaiz Kayani engineered the general elections in 2013 with the support of Saudi Arabia and the USA in favour of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif,” he said speaking at the Geo News’ program Aaj Shahzeb Khanzada Kay Saath.
He quoted a satire piece, published on April 1, which suggested that Imran Khan’s party was all set to win at least 60% seats from all over Pakistan; however, due to massive rigging by certain policy circles their mandate was stolen.
Haque said, “It is all in our knowledge, there was nothing new in the published article. General Kayani, Saudi Arabia and the USA engineered the election in favour of Nawaz Sharif.”
“The polls were stopped in middle of the night. ROs were pressured to follow the instructions,” he added.
“I challenge Gen (Retd) Kayani to refute the allegation. We don’t need to give any proof; people are aware of the facts. Ingenuities are not exercised on a written paper. There are no safe recordings available of such acts.”
He added that in case there is a PTI government in future, the party will form a commission to investigate the elections.
However, Haq clarified on Tuesday (today), he made above statement in his personal capacity.