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Edited By: Pritha Mallick
Final Up to date: February 17, 2023, 21:23 IST
Imran Khan is presently embroiled in circumstances linked to protests exterior the election fee, alleged unlawful funding and corruption. (Reuters/File)
Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf Chief Imran Khan mentioned the motion towards the federal government’s “political victimisation” of leaders and allies of his occasion would start from February 22, Wednesday
Former Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan on Friday mentioned the ‘Jail Bharo Motion’ or court docket arrest motion towards the federal government’s “political victimisation” of PTI occasion leaders and allies will kickstart on February 22.
“We’ll fill jails, they [authorities] could have no area left then,” the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf chief mentioned whereas addressing the nation by way of video hyperlink from Lahore, the place he’s residing since being shot within the legs on November three final 12 months.
Khan’s announcement got here after PTI leaders, together with Fawad Chaudhry, Azam Swati, Shahbaz Gill, and Awami Muslim League chief Sheikh Rashid, have been just lately arrested and launched on bail in sedition circumstances. The occasion has alleged the senior leaders have been tortured in custody, a declare that authorities have denied.
Tensions between the Pakistan Democratic Motion-led authorities and the PTI have heightened, with no signal of respite because the elections in two provinces — Punjab and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa — close to, following the occasion’s choice to dissolve the assemblies.
Khan is presently embroiled in circumstances linked to protests exterior the election fee, alleged unlawful funding and corruption. The 70-year-old cricketer-turned-politician has suffered huge blows to his profession with the Lahore Excessive Court docket on Thursday rejected his bail plea within the election fee protest case. The previous prime minister has additionally been disqualified by the Election Fee of Pakistan (ECP) over “false statements and incorrect declaration” for purchasing items, together with an costly Graff wristwatch he had obtained as prime minister at a reduced value from the state depository referred to as Toshakhana and promoting them for revenue.
Khan was ousted as Pakistan’s prime minister in April final 12 months after the Nationwide Meeting handed a no-confidence movement towards him.
Initially, he blamed a US conspiracy to dislodge him. Nonetheless, he later accused Military chief Gen (retd) Qamar Javed Bajwa for orchestrating his ouster final April. Khan has approached President Arif Alvi and demanded an inquiry towards Bajwa for repeatedly violating phrases of his oath, together with secretly taping conversations with him throughout his prime ministership.
In the meantime, Pakistan is affected by its worst financial disaster with rising cost-of-living bills amid fears of foreign money devaluation and financial collapse. Costs of necessities, together with milk, and pure gasoline, have elevated exponentally after Finance minister Ishaq Dar on Tuesday hiked gasoline costs to safe an early launch of Worldwide Financial Fund’s (IMF) $1.2 billion tranche, by elevating an extra PKR310 billion from nearly all of home and all different classes of customers.
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