ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s former information minister Chaudhry Fawad Hussain on Thursday demanded the establishment of a judicial commission to determine if the recent change of government in Pakistan was a result of foreign interference in the country’s domestic politics.

Former prime minister Imran Khan was recently ousted from Pakistan’s top political office in a no-confidence vote which his party described as part of an elaborate international conspiracy to bring down his administration.

Khan and his close aides used a diplomatic cable written by the country’s envoy in Washington as evidence to prove that the Biden administration wanted to topple the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) government.

The document was also discussed in the last National Security Council (NSC) meeting, while the allegations made by the former political administration of Pakistan were also denied by United States officials.

Hussain called for a judicial probe into the matter shortly after the director general of the military’s media wing, ISPR, held a news conference in which he said the word “conspiracy” was not used in the statement issued after the NSC meeting.

“In my view, @OfficialDGISPR’s statement is an authentication of the National Security Council’s press release,” he wrote in a Twitter post. “The [National] Security Council said it condemned external interference in Pakistan’s politics, though the word conspiracy was not used. Now, it is important that a judicial commission is formed to investigate this interference and see where it originated from.”



The former information minister said it was important to determine the nature of this interference and who were the people who made it possible.

“Was Shahbaz Sharif installed as prime minister as a result of the external interference,” he asked while adding it was important to form a powerful judicial commission that could get to the bottom of the issue.



Hussain did not respond to other revelation made by the top ISPR official who denied the previous administration’s claim that the US had asked Pakistan for military bases while pulling out its troops from Afghanistan.

He also remained silent about the assertion that the former prime minister had reached out to the army chief to help pacify the political situation after the opposition brought a no-confidence motion against him.