Exclusive: Imran Khan calls on the West to speak up amid 'draconian' crackdown on his party's staff and supporters in Pakistan
, Mr Khan said members of his party - the PTI - were facing a crackdown from the military, with more than 10,000 workers having been jailed.
"I wanted to bring the powerful mafias under the law and somehow that's where we differed because later on I discovered that he had very good relationships with these political mafias. And so he was not interested," he said. "Anyone who's a sympathiser or a worker - they break into their houses and pick them up. Most of my leadership who are not in prison are hiding so when they don't find them in their houses they go and grab their relatives.
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