Lahore: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan has strongly criticized the coalition government for allegedly attempting to attack the country's judiciary and undermining its powers. He accused the government of taking the country towards fascism by breaking into the homes of party workers and social media activists.
In a series of tweets, Khan vowed that the people of Pakistan would continue to resist the "cabal of crooks" who were attempting to attack the Supreme Court of Pakistan and undermine its powers. He also shared a screenshot of a passage describing Hitler's Third Reich, saying that the country was "heading towards a similar state of fascism."
Khan highlighted that "unknown" people were breaking into homes of PTI workers and social media teams, and "terrorizing and even abducting" their family members if the person being sought was not present at the time of the raid. He added that "abductions, custodial torture, multiple fake cases, total clampdown on media plus harassment of journalists — this is the State of Pakistan today with no Rule of Law & complete violation of Constitution.”
Speaking to a delegation of retired session judges at his Zaman Park residence, Khan predicted that his party would form the next government with a full mandate and serve the country "without the need of any crutches." He insisted that the PTI had never shied away from dialogue and that the announcement of general elections should be the only agenda of a dialogue.
Meanwhile, PTI President Chaudhry Parvez Elahi said Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif was trying to limit the powers of the chief justice through constitutional amendments, creating a clash between the judiciary and the parliament. He also claimed that legislation made without consulting the opposition "has no status."
Elahi further added that the Chief Justice of Pakistan was the red line of not only lawyers but the entire nation, which he said would not tolerate any restrictions on the independence of the judiciary. He said that the government could not impose its unconstitutional rules and regulations on the Supreme Court.
Senior PTI leader Fawad Chaudhry also spoke out in support of the judiciary, saying that the entire nation stood with the Supreme Court. He added that they would not allow the Supreme Court to be weakened and that they would not tolerate any attempt to influence the judiciary's decisions.
Meanwhile, PTI's central Punjab president, Dr Yasmin Rashid, accused the Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM) of operating through the "law of the jungle", violating basic human rights and abducting citizens. She said the current government had made the National Accountability Bureau toothless and was now after the Supreme Court. Dr. Rashid said the PTI had rejected the PDM's "illegal legislation" to pressurize the judiciary and that an attack on the superior judiciary was tantamount to an attack on Pakistan.
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