Times of Islamabad

PML Q Chief Chaudhry Pervaiz Elahi levels serious allegations against former ISI Chief

PML Q Chief Chaudhry Pervaiz Elahi levels serious allegations against former ISI Chief

*ISLAMABAD – **PML Q Chief Chaudhry Pervaiz Elahi levels seriousallegations against former ISI Chief.*

In an interview with *Geo News*, Elahi had claimed that in 2010, the formergeneral had “poached” his party members for the PTI. Elahi said he had evencomplained against General Pasha to General Parvez Kayani, the then chiefof army staff.

Elahi claimed that all those who are now senior ranking leaders of the PTIwere once in the PML-Q, including Jahangir Tareen and Aleem Khan.

But Khan rejected Elahi’s statement. The PTI leader said that he joined theparty after Imran Khan personally asked him to.

*I have never met former ISI chief Lieutenant General Shuja Pasha, said PTIleader Aleem Khan in response to claims by Pervaiz Elahi, a PML-Q leaderand Punjab Assembly speaker, who said that he joined the PTI after meetingthe former intelligence agency chief.*

“The general he [Pervaiz Elahi] is referring to, I have never met him.Neither have I ever expressed any wish to meet him nor has General Pashadone the same for me,” the PTI leader told the media on Tuesday. “I don’tthink we even recognize each other by sight.”

Lieutenant General Ahmad Shuja Pasha is a retired three star rank generalwho also served as the director-general of the ISI from October 2008 tillMarch 2012.