Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf Chairman Imran Khan Saturday said that during 2014 sit-in, then Army Chief General Raheel Sharif (now retired) had a meeting with him and asked him to end the sit-in. In an interview with the host of Aaj News talk show 'Rubaroo' Shaukat Piracha, Imran said the then army chief had offered him to act as mediator and assured that demand for fair probe into alleged rigging in 2013 elections would be accepted.

"I had told General Raheel Sharif that we don't have trust in Nawaz Sharif," he said, adding that for that reason we were not in a mood to end the sit-in but General Raheel (retd) had asked us to do so. He said former chief of Jamaat-e-Islami, the late Qazi Hussain Ahmed had also asked him to never trust Nawaz Sharif. Imran hinted at conditional support to the military courts extension saying that the government must give categorical assurance that terrorism-related laws would not be applied to politicians.

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