ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has announced that his predecessor, Imran Khan, will face legal action for making an "anti-state speech" at a public meeting in Abbottabad, calling it a "great conspiracy" against the country and its institutions.

According to reports, Sharif said Khan's actions could only be classified as conspiracy, not politics, and that the conspiracy was directed at the country, not political opponents. "Pakistan cannot be surrendered and compromised because of one person's ego, hubris, and outright lying... Imran first planned to damage the country's economy, and now he is preparing to start a civil war in Pakistan." Sharif said that the former prime minister was provoking "civil war" in the country and warned that all of his "nefarious schemes" will be thwarted at all costs.

Sharif's comments follow a statement by a military spokesman urging politicians, journalists, and analysts against involving the Pakistan Army and its leadership in the country's domestic affairs, calling it "very destructive."

While referring to Khan as Hitler, Mir Jaffar, and Mir Sadiq, Sharif accused him of "concocting a narrative against national institutions," claiming that the former leader was too busy conspiring against the country and its institutions to play politics, the report read.

"Those concocting a narrative against national institutions were the actual Mir Jaffar and Mir Sadiq," he claimed, referring to the names Khan has used to refer to the Prime Minister and others as "traitors" in his speeches.

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