ISLAMABAD: State Minister for Information Marriyum Aurangzeb said on Friday that Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf Chairman Imran Khan?s press conference earlier today was upon the directions of an unknown "puppeteer's".

The state minister said that the media talk revealed who was pulling the strings of the PTI chief.

?Imran is mentally challenged and acting upon unknown person?s directions,? said Marriyum.

She claimed that Imran is similar to a puppet and a hurdle in Pakistan?s progress, fulfilling directives 'from overseas'.

The state minister said that when former president Pervez Musharraf ?was selling Pakistanis for US dollars, Imran was standing besides him?.

?Imran needs to explain why he supported Musharraf?s post-9/11 policy,? she said.

Earlier today, Imran Khan criticised the incumbent government after the United States cut military aid to the country and questioned why was the prime minister not active in handling the situation. 

The PTI chief alleged that country's leadership is itself portraying a negative image, hence, why "would the US be any different".

He added that the Sharif brothers are belittling the country to save themselves and their ill-gotten wealth.

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Imran added that to blame Pakistan for failures in Afghanistan was a travesty of justice.

"I have always said this is not our war, we were dragged into it for money and now it has become our war," stated the PTI chairman.