Imran Khan urges Pak court docket to take stand in opposition to victimisation of get together members

By Press Trust of India: Pakistan’s former prime minister Imran Khan on Friday appealed to the judiciary to take a stand in opposition to the alleged violation of the individuals’s basic rights and victimisation of members of the nation’s largest political get together after a senior chief from his get together was whisked away from a high-security jail by “unknown men”.

Taking to Twitter, Khan, additionally the chief of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) get together, stated, “Removal of Shehryar Afridi (senior PTI leader) from Adiala Jail, the day before yesterday by unknown men (a reference to intelligence agencies) is completely illegal & shows the sheer lawlessness and high-handedness in the country.”

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“I urge our judiciary to take a stand and stop this complete violation of our fundamental rights and blatant victimisation of members of Pakistan’s largest political party,” Khan tweeted.

Removal of Shehryar Afridi from Adiyala Jail day earlier than yesterday by unknown males is totally unlawful & exhibits the sheer lawlessness and high-handedness within the nation.

As highlighted by his lawyer, the only function of placing Shehryar by means of this torture and persecution is toâ€æ pic.twitter.com/xSpCNFZ1Bc
— Imran Khan (@ImranKhanPTI) July 21, 2023

Afridi, 52, has served because the Minister of State for Interior from August 2018 to April 2019.

Khan additionally sees the resurgence of the ‘cipher controversy’ (during which he had accused the US of toppling his authorities) as a bid to disqualify him from contesting upcoming basic elections.

On Thursday, Interior Minister Rana Sanaullah warned Khan that he is perhaps arrested if he fails to cooperate with the investigation into the leaking of nationwide secrets and techniques in what has broadly come to be referred to as the ‘cipher case.’

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As highlighted by Shehryar’s lawyer, the only function of placing him by means of this torture and persecution is to coerce him into recording a 164 CrPc assertion in opposition to him (Khan), the 70-year-old cricketer-turned-politician stated.

Khan is reportedly below a ‘digital home arrest’ and no PTI chief or employee is allowed to see him at his Zaman Park residence in Lahore.

Khan additionally chided the federal government over the arrest of over 10,000 PTI employees within the wake of the assault on navy installations and state buildings in response to his arrest linked to a corruption case on May 9.

He stated there’s a legislation of the jungle within the nation as his get together leaders are re-arrested in phoney circumstances after securing bail from courts.

“The silence of the human rights organisations and our journalist community is shocking…,” Khan tweeted.

PTI employee Sohail Khan was shot on the ninth of May whereas exercising his constitutional proper to protest peacefully in opposition to the unconstitutional and unjust abduction of his get together chairman, Imran Khan.

His leg needed to be amputated however then in yet one more case of blaming the sufferer,â€æ pic.twitter.com/VhEGkxefWo
— Imran Khan (@ImranKhanPTI) July 20, 2023

Addressing the nation by means of YouTube on Thursday night time, Khan once more accused Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, Pakistan Peoples Party de facto head Asif Ali Zardari and former military chief General Qamar Javed Bajwa of hatching a conspiracy to take away him from the workplace of prime minister in April 2022 by means of a no-confidence movement.

“The PMLN-led coalition government and its handlers have only a one-point agenda — disqualify me and send me to jail. To execute their plan, they have now brought forward the US cipher issue,” he stated and demanded an in depth inquiry into the US ‘cipher conspiracy’ because the Federal Investigation Agency shouldn’t be competent sufficient to conduct the probe.

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“The nation must know about the real players behind the conspiracy,” Khan stated.

Khan was faraway from workplace by means of a no-confidence vote, turning into the primary premier in Pakistan’s historical past to be despatched residence after shedding the belief of the National Assembly.

Khan has repeatedly alleged that the US orchestrated a plan to take away him from workplace for visiting Russia and assembly President Vladimir Putin.

He additionally brandished the cypher (diplomatic cable) at a public rally to again his claims. The US has again and again denied Khan’s allegations, terming them “categorically false”.

Imran Khan travelled to Moscow in February final yr and met President Putin on the eve of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.