Islamabad: Imran Khan’s Party – Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf, PTI has announced a nationwide protest to condemn the arrest of the former PM. The nationwide protest was also fueled after PTI leaders and Khan’s legal team were barred from meeting him at Attock Jail.
As per Dawn News, PTI has termed the verdict against Khan as “biased, one-sided, ridiculous and unlawful” from a “kangaroo court in absentia.”
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“Chairman’s legal team is not being given access to him for getting legal documents signed, as per the prerequisite, despite appeals made to Superintendent Attock Prison & Additional Home Secretary Punjab,” read the statement issued by PTI.
“This doesn’t sound like an arrest at all, it sounds like an abduction,” the statement added further. Shah Mahmood Qureshi, who has taken the lead for PTI due to Imran Khan’s absence stated that all workers must take to the streets to protest against this unlawful arrest but remain peaceful.
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“Peaceful protest is our right but no state asset is to be damaged. Don’t take the law in your hands,” stated Qureshi in a video message.
Ahead of the protests, Qureshi also chaired an emergency meeting to work on a strategy to tackle the charges against Khan.
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Former Pakistani PM Imran Khan was arrested on Saturday after a trial court in Islamabad found him guilty of corrupt practices in the Toshakhana case. The court sentenced the PTI chairman to three years in jail and barred him from politics for the next five years.
Khan was initially supposed to be sent to Adiala Jail in Rawalpindi, but, for security reasons was sent to Attock jail instead. Lahore High Court Bar Association and the Supreme Court Bar Association in Pakistan has expressed their concerns regarding the nature of Khan’s arrest.
