Rawalpindi:
Pakistan Tehreek-E-Insaf (PTI) founder Imran Khan has promised not to bend in the light of any pressure and say that any perception of his surrender is a “misunderstanding”.
When we talked to media outside the Adiala prison after a hearing in the Toshakhana-II case on Wednesday, PTI founder’s sister Aleema Khan communicated his message. She quoted Imran as saying, “Those who think I will break are delusions. I don’t want to 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 defiant 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 constitutional 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 and warns them 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. “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 called on the legal community to unite against the 26th amendment and said, “Imran Khan may be in focus 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 off the field. She said both women were arrested by PTI workers and handed over to the police, but later released “under orders from above.”
The PTI founder has been instructed to appear via video link from Adiala Prison for the next hearing as Anti-Terrorism Court (ATC) postponed GHQ attacking case to October 1st. The development came after the Punjab government formally withdrew its notification to hold a prison attempt 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.
