• Army Chief’s response comes after Imran Khan’s third open letter.
• Pakistan is on the development path, says Coas Gen Munir.
• Gen Munir says Pakistan is moving forward and progressing.

Chief of the Army Staff General Asim Munir refused to receive any letter from former Premier and PTI founder Imran Khan on Thursday.

The army that spoke informally with the media and apparently refers to the imprisoned former Premier’s ‘Open Letters’, the army chief said he would not “read it [letter] Even though I receive it ”.

The army boss maintained that he would forward any such communication to the Prime Minister if he received it.

General Munir maintained that the country went satisfactorily and Pakistan was on the development path.

“Pakistan goes ahead and Pakistan has to move on,” the army chief added.

The development came only a day after Khan, who has been behind pillars since August 2023 in dozens of cases ranging from corruption to terrorism, wrote a third open letter to Gen Munir, according to his lawyer.

In the third letter, the imprisoned PTI founded boundaries repeated elections due to allegations of elections and said that “money launderers” were brought to power via manipulated polls.

“In his letter to the army chief, the PTI founder raised the question of giving the minority rather than the majority through election fraud,” his lawyer Faisal Chaudhry had said in a statement.

Earlier, the 71-year-old cricketer-facing politician said he had tied two “open letters” to Army Chief on February 3 and February 8, “because all Democratic roads had been hindered.”

In previous letters, Imran pointed out what he claimed was a growing distance between the military and the public.

In his letters, the former prime minister wrote six points and called on the army to reassess his policy to win the public with reasons and proposals that Imran suggested to remedy the situation.

The letters were important when the former reigning party ended its negotiations with the PML-N-led government last month, with PTI demanding two things formation of legal commissions on events that happened on May 9, 2023 and 24. November -27 and release of “All political prisoners”, including Khan.

Last December, Director General (ISPR) Director -General Ahmed Sharif Chaudhry (ISPR) Director -General Ahmed Sharif Chaudhry said that no political leader’s desire for power should be more important than Pakistan’s interests.

The Ice Roofing Spokesman’s comments came in response to a question of alleged back door conversations between PTI and the establishment.

“All political parties and leaders are respectable to us. No individual, his policy and his desire for power are over Pakistan,” he said during a media briefing.

‘Letters aim to create gap between the army, public’

The government, on the other hand, previously responded strongly to IMRAN’s steps to write letters to the army chief, with PM’s adviser to public and political affairs Rana Sanaullah and said they intend to create divisions between the military and the public or so misunderstandings within the Army Command .

Sanaullah questioned the origin of Khan’s letters from prison and asked, “Where do these letters come from? If he wants to take part in political struggle, he should do so in parliament. “

Meanwhile, PML-N senator Irfan Siddiqui had said Khan’s letter to Gen Asim Munir was proof of the former “despair and frustration”.