ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan on Saturday, in a message to the Islamabad High Court (IHC), asked if the judiciary only served the powerful in the country.
“Our institutions for justice are controlled… [by] a corrupt leader who wants to be amirul momineen (commander of the faithful),” he said.
The chairman made this statement while addressing a press conference outside his Bani Gala residence in an apparent response to the IHC’s remarks earlier this week, which questioned under which laws Imran Khan was threatening to lockdown Islamabad. “I want to ask Justice Siddiqui that when you made a decision and passed an order permitting us to hold a peaceful protest, and said that containers will not be placed, then why are our activists in jail?” the PTI chief said. He alleged that all these actions were being taken by Nawaz Sharif to hide his corruption.
“What law is allowing this? What democracy is this? The courts have made a decision… that decision is being violated in front of the whole country,” he said.
Imran Khan vowed to go ahead with his plans of a lockdown of the capital on November 2. He advised the PTI supporters to travel in groups, saying that when they arrived in small numbers the police would “put them in jail”.
