Earlier, a close aide to Khan told Reuters news agency that he would not confront the military or army chief Asim Munir if freed.
The comments appeared to mark a significant change in rhetoric by his party, Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf, or PTI.
In an interview on Wednesday, Khan’s aide Zulfikar Bukhari, a PTI spokesperson, sent one of the strongest signals so far that the party was willing to reconcile with the military, potentially easing one of the tensest stand-offs in recent Pakistani political history.
“If Imran Khan was released tomorrow, hypothetically, he wouldn’t do anything that would effectively damage the country,” Bukhari said, describing him as “magnanimous”.
“That doesn’t mean you go loggerheads with the establishment, with the military leader,” he said. “You control your own hurt. You curb your own pain. You swallow it for the betterment of your country.”
The former cricketer-turned-politician was removed from office following a parliamentary no-confidence vote in April 2022.
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