Imran Khan, Pakistan’s deposed prime minister, handed the Shehbaz Sharif government a six-day deadline to dissolve provincial legislatures and call new general elections, claiming that “Imported government” fails to do so, he might come to the capital with the “entire nation.”
The government tactics
Khan slammed out at the government for adopting tactics including raids and arrests to block his party’s march at a rally of thousands of Azadi March’ demonstrators on Jinnah Avenue on this Thursday morning, even as he hailed the Supreme Court (SC) for making observations of the matter.
The government used tear gas on nonviolent protesters, searched our homes, and violated our privacy, but I have witnessed the nation liberate itself from the fear of enslavement, he said.
“My message to the imported administration is to disintegrate assemblies and call elections immediately; otherwise, I will return to Islamabad in six days.”
Point of view of Imran Khan
Khan wondered even in a democracy peaceful demonstrations are not allowed and people are subjected to tear gas shelling, police raids, and arrests, noting that the Supreme Court judges bear “great responsibility.”
“I had decided to sit till the government diffuses assemblies and announces elections,”he said, adding that “from what I’ve seen in the last 24 hours, they (the government) are leading the country towards anarchy.” He also claimed that the government was attempting to create a divide between the people and the police.
According to the Dawn daily, Khan stated the authorities would be glad if he arranged asit-in at Islamabad since it would result in conflicts between both the people and the police and army.
He claimed that five members of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) was killed in clashes during the party’s march, one of whom fell off the Attock bridge amid tear gas shelling and the other of whom was pushed into the Ravi river.
He further stated that he had received the information that three people had been slain in Karachi. “I’m pleading with the judiciary once more to rescue your FIA” (Federal Investigation Agency). “No FIA member will investigate those powerful in the future if he will end up like Dr Rizwan and Asghar,” he warned.
