Imran Khan Alleges Ruling Coalition Plans To Delay Pakistan’s Elections 

Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman, Imran Khan has asked his party leadership, workers and supporters to get ready for Jail Bharo Tehreek (court arrest movement).

He said he would make an announcement in this regard soon.

Imran’s comments come in the wake of sedition cases filed against his party’s Senior Vice-President Fawad Chaudhry and former member of the National Assembly Shandana Gulzar, while Senator Azam Swati and Shahbaz Gill were booked earlier for speaking against the military.

Imran Khan, while addressing his supporters via video link, asked the workers and his party leaders to start preparation for the movement.

He said that the ruling coalition was using tactics to delay the general elections,  stressing that ”he never saw an interim government in the country’s political history that was busy targeting opponents.”

The PTI chief said; “We have two options: Considering what they have been doing, we could have gone for a wheel-jam strike and demonstrations which is also a way and a democratic one.

“But since the state of the economy is so bad, it’ll worsen. Therefore, I ask all my workers, the Pakistani nation and everyone to prepare for the Jail Bharo movement.”

Imran also warned against any move to delay the elections in Punjab and Khyber-Pakhtunkwa.

He said; ”the governors of the provinces are supposed to give date for new elections so that polls could be held within 90 days of the dissolution of provincial legislatures.”

The former PM said, “I was advised against dissolving assemblies but I did so keeping in mind that Constitution requires elections to be held within 90 days.”

He said that despite the passage of 18 days of the dissolution of two provincial assemblies, the Punjab and KP governors have not yet given a date to the ECP for new elections.

“After 90 days, the Article 6 will be applied to all those who are part of this [interim] governments if new elections are not held.

“Fawad Chaudhry was picked up from home at 3am. What did Shandana Gulzar do that made her a terrorist? As the court gives bail to Sheikh Rashid, more cases are being filed against him,” the PTI chairman said, saying how action had been taken against every person who called for the regime change.

“It was their plan to weaken Tehreek-e-Insaf by intimidation,” the PTI chief said.

Khan claimed his party never committed such atrocities in its tenure as the PDM-led government in the Centre had

The former prime minister said human rights violations have continued since the “imported government” arrived.

Mercy Chukwudiebere