Lahore: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan has announced kickstarting the ‘Jail Bharo’ (court arrest) movement from Wednesday, starting from Lahore.
Addressing to the nation via video link from Lahore’s Zaman Park residence on Friday, former premier said that “We will fill jails, they [authorities] will have no space left to hide.”
The PTI chief blamed the incumbent coalition government for its “political victimisation” of his party leaders and allies,
“They want to enslave us by threatening to put us in jails,” the former prime minister said vowing to fulfil the wish of authorities.
Khan claimed that the police entered the homes of PTI workers in Multan and were tasked with such threatening tactics. “If this work is being done by the police, then won’t the people hate them?”
The interim government is strongly against the PTI, he added.
He said: “The man with a questionable character was brought in. We have a list of 23 people who had inflicted atrocities of which 16 were brought in.”
The PTI chief also recalled the “torture” inflicted on his party’s leaders highlighting the treatment meted out to Swati, Gill and Fawad.
“Never in history have such acts been committed against political opponents,” Khan lamented
The PTI chief said: “It is dangerous that the Chief Election Commissioner ( CEC) is showing his inability on conducting the election.”
No disaster could be bigger than that when the judiciary failed to ensure the implementation of the Constitution, he said while hitting out hard at the ECP.
Khan said that they had been claiming that the coalition government did not have the mandate and they cannot run the country.
The PTI chief said “its job is to only conduct elections” while he hurled accusation that the interim government has obstructed the probe against the assassination attack on him in Wazirabad on November 3 last year,
“The interim government first comes and stops the [joint investigation team] JIT and steals records. When an officer goes to collect the JIT report, it is found that only 11 pages of the report are remaining,” he said, adding that the JIT records are being claimed to have gone missing.
The former premier, lambasting the interim setup in Punjab, said that all links were pointing at them and they were worried about being caught.
Lashing out at the incumbent rulers over the recently announced mini-budget, Khan asked as if raising prices is a “tough decision.”
The government has broken the backbone of people by hiking the prices of all daily-use items, the deposed prime minister added. “loans are not the solution to the problems being faced by the country.”
Khan taking jibe at the PDM said: “They did not come into power via election but auction. The government does not seem to conduct elections in 90 days. They fear elections.”
The ruling alliance wanted to win elections through the rigging, he accused the authorities and at the same time warned that the PTI would not “keep silent over snatching of elections”.
As per the PTI chief, it seems that institutions are under pressure and the government is running away from elections.
He also vowed that the PTI would not let the government rig the elections, no matter what they do.
The ex-premier said the PPP has no vote bank in Karachi but it showed achievement in recent elections in the metropolis.
