Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) chairman Imran Khan on Tuesday filed a petition in the Supreme Court against his 'virtual' house arrest, the arrest of "thousands" of PTI workers over the past three days, and the alleged manhandling of female PTI activists.
The petition states that while PTI’s leaders and workers have been practicing their constitutional rights to protest and movement within the country, the federal government has ‘gone on a warpath’.
"Since Oct 28, the federal government has used containers to block entrances into the federal capital, disconnecting KPK from the rest of the country."
The petition further states that blockages around Khan's house and deployment of police forces there prevented him from reaching the SC today where he was due to present himself.
'Is asking for justice pressurising judiciary?'
Imran Khan on Tuesday asked if asking for justice from the courts regarding government crackdown on his party workers is tantamount to pressurising judiciary.
"Is asking for justice pressurising the courts?" he asked.
"If we want to know from the courts [why] we are being baton-charged, roads are being blocked and women are being arrested... is this pressurising the courts?"
He said PTI leaders will raise the issue in Supreme Court.
"What crime have we committed that PTI workers are being arrested? Why was I put under house arrest?"
He also questioned under which law the Pervez Khattak-led convoy of PTI protesters was stopped from reaching Islamabad.
"Nawaz Sharif fought election with ISI [Inter Services Intelligence] money, he doesn’t know what democracy is."
In response to a question about Sheikh Rasheed's tweet that Khan should step down from Bani Gala, the PTI chief said "the captain works according to his own strategy". He said he has a strategy for Nov 2, when he will leave Bani Gala for the capital "no matter what obstacles" the government puts in his way.
Imran should have joined us in Pindi: Rasheed
Awami Muslim League (AML) chief Shaikh Rashid Tuesday said that PTI chairman Imran Khan should have joined his protest in Rawalpindi on Oct 28.
Talking to reporters outside the Supreme Court in Islamabad, he said that he does not "complain during war times" but the PTI chief should have joined his party in Rawalpindi "at any cost".
On Oct 28, Imran Khan was scheduled to address supporters at an AML-organised meeting at Lal Haveli but later cancelled the plan saying his party is instead gearing up for the Nov 2 protest in Islamabad.
"We want to get rid of Nawaz Sharif at any cost," Rasheed said.
"Now the army need to decide if they are with Erdogan or with people," he said, apparently referring to Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif as the Turkish president. In reply to a question, he made it clear that he was not inviting the army.
"Yes Musharraf was a dictator but he was better than these thieves."
"We will not spare the prime minister and will follow him like a stinger or silkworm missile until and unless he is sacked from his office," he added.
From Dawn News
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