Pakistan’s outgoing military chief Qamar Javed Bajwa rejected on Wednesday as “faux and false” claims by ousted prime minister Imran Khan that a U.S.-backed conspiracy had toppled his authorities, and in addition stated the army would play no function in nationwide politics in future.

Common Qamar Javed Bajwa’s feedback got here at one in all his farewell addresses on the army’s headquarters within the garrison metropolis of Rawalpindi, which lies subsequent to the capital Islamabad.

“You assume that the armed forces would sit idly by if there have been an exterior conspiracy within the nation,” Bajwa stated, referring to Khan’s declare that the parliamentary confidence vote that ousted him in April was a part of a U.S.-backed plot.

The previous premier has additionally alleged that the army performed a job in his ouster, a cost the military has denied.

“A state of hysteria was created within the nation on the pretext of a faux and false narrative,” the military chief stated about Khan’s essential accusation that Washington supported his removing with the assistance of a neighborhood handler.

The USA has denied any involvement.

Over the weekend, Khan stated that even when the army had not been concerned it may nonetheless have saved his authorities.

Khan’s celebration spokesman Fawad Chaudhry instructed Reuters he had no touch upon the military chief’s remarks.

Khan has been main a large protest marketing campaign since his ouster to demand snap polls and, in keeping with political analysts, to place strain on the federal government and the army to govern the number of a brand new military chief in his favour.

Bajwa, who is because of retire on Nov. 29, additionally stated on Wednesday that the army had determined to stop any function in Pakistani politics, although analysts stay sceptical that it’s going to accomplish that.

A course of for Bajwa’s substitute has already begun after the army on Wednesday despatched an inventory of the six most senior lieutenant generals to Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, who will decide one in all them within the subsequent couple of days.