ISLAMABAD: The PTI and its opposition partners are organizing a demonstration, but the party’s head made it plain on Wednesday that this time they will be following the legislative process rather than acting as a disruptive force.
Barrister Gohar Ali Khan told reporters in Islamabad that the PTI was in negotiations to join protests that would resume after the Eidul Fitr break with groups including the Majlis Wahdat Muslimeen, Mehmood Khan Achakzai’s PkMAP, Jamaat-i-Islami, BNP-Mengal, and even Fazlur Rehman’s JUI-F.
PTI Chairman Barrister Gohar Ali Khan emphasized that the party had not chosen a sit-in, boycott, or mass resignations and was still sitting in parliament despite being aware that the current government lacked a valid mandate when questioned about their plan for the next wave of protests that the party had announced.
“Everyone demands that there be no election rigging ever again. He gave an explanation of the motivations behind the protest movement, saying, “The people vote for someone and someone else comes to power. This shouldn’t happen.”
Party demands that the CJP resign from the full bench hearing for “meddling” suo motu
Barrister Gohar responded that they would conduct “on and off” peaceful protests across the nation and would only do so in the approved locations with official approval when asked whether he anticipated any obstacles to their protest strategy.
In response to a question about whether they would allow the current administration to serve out its five-year term, Barrister Gohar stated that while they thought all governments ought to serve out their terms, the current administration lacked a public mandate.
The “recusal” of CJP
at the meantime, after his recent meeting with the premier, PTI Central Information Secretary Raoof Hasan asked at a news conference that Chief Justice of Pakistan (CJP) Qazi Faez Isa not be on the panel that reviews the letter submitted by six high court judges.
Mr. Hasan, flanked by prominent PTI figures Khalid Khurshid, Shaukat Basra, and Kanwal Shauzab, stated that the CJP lacked rationale and justification for meeting with the executive on the matter. This was because high court judges had written a letter to the Supreme Judicial Council alleging that the executive was interfering, implying that the premier was a “accomplice” in the affair.
He claimed that because the CJP took a long time during the proceedings to defend and explain his meeting with PM Shehbaz Sharif, attempts were being made at the SC level to ignore the issue. “We thought that by meeting with the PM, the CJP politicized the case and his own actions,” Mr. Hasan insisted.
He also voiced worries about Bushra Bibi, the wife of PTI founder chairman Imran Khan, being slowly poisoned and facing threats to her life.
He claimed that even after five weeks, Bushra Bibi’s condition had not improved; on the contrary, it had gotten worse. He stated that they wanted immediate directives about Bushra Bibi’s medical evaluation and the sending of her blood sample overseas because there was no laboratory in Pakistan that could create a blood report for slow poisoning. He declared, “We demand that she be moved to Adiala Jail immediately.”
Khalid Khurshid, the former chief minister of Gilgit-Baltistan, also took a hard line against the relevant authorities for not providing Bushra Bibi with medical examination facilities, even though her health was rapidly worsening.
