Rawalpindi:
Pakistan Tehreek-E-Insaf (PTI) founder Imran Khan has promised not to bow and say that any perception of his surrender is a ‘misunderstanding’.
When he spoke with media outside the Adiala prison after a hearing in Toshakhana 2.0 on Wednesday, PTI Boundary’s sister Aleema Khan communicated his message. She quoted Imran as saying, “Those who think I will break are misleading. I will not accept slavery, no matter what is done to me.”
Imran has called on the entire nation to take the streets on September 27 and call for great participation in what he said will be a defining moment in Pakistan’s political opposition, she added.
Aleema also said that IMRAN remains defiantly and critical of the current political order and quoted the PTI founder to say that an attempt was made to crush PTI by bringing the 26th change to control the judiciary, confuse the media and strangled democracy.
According to her, Imran also warned that Pakistan has seen a drastic decline in foreign investment and its debt has almost doubled. Imran believes the country is heading down a dangerous path similar to Bangladesh, Sri Lanka or Nepal, she added.
Aleema noted that Imran has directed PTI’s leadership to play the role of a real resistance warning of political irrelevans. “If you don’t act now, you dig your own political graves,” she quoted the PTI founder.
No to video link attempts
By touching the video link negotiations in General Headquarters (GHQ) -attack case, Aleema said: “The Punjab government and the home department want to isolate IMRAN KHAN by forcing a video link attempt. We completely reject it.”
She argued that Imran had denied such events, even after surviving an assault attempt and said, “He insisted on being physically present in court. Now that he is in prison, they will isolate him further under the pretext of a video link.”
The insulation, she claimed, prevents legal consultation and interrupts him from the family. “The goal is to dampen him,” she added, warning that after the Toshakhana Case, Imran and his wife Bushra Bibi may be exposed to prolonged lonely inclusion.
Aleema further urged the legal community to unite against the 26th amendment and said, “Imran Khan may be today, but tomorrow it may be anyone else facing these undemocratic tools.”
She also talked about a recent incident where two women allegedly threw eggs on her outside court. She said both women were arrested by PTI workers and handed over to the police, but later released “under orders from above.”
ATC orders Imran Khan will appear via video link in the next consultation
PTI founder Imran Khan has been instructed to perform via video link from Adiala Prison for the next hearing as Anti-Terrorism Court (ATC) postponed the GHQ attack case to October 1st. The development came after the Punjab government formally withdrew its notification to hold a prison in the case.
Chairman of ATC judge Amjad Ali Shah, the court issued a call for three witnesses to perform during the next hearing and instructed Challan copies to be distributed in 11 other cases on May 9 the same day.
Another ATC has framed charges against 11 arrested persons in the protest day November 26. ATC judge Tahir Abbas Supra conducted the hearing, where the defendants did not plead guilty. The court postponed the procedure until September 24.
In the same case, PTI leaders remain in preliminary bail until November 13. Police have submitted the challenge of those arrested out of 195 workers nominated in the secretariat’s police station case, while 184 absent has already been declared declared declared offenders by the court.
