Imran orders launch of movement after Ashura: Aleema

ISLAMABAD: Aleema Khan, the sister of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf founder Imran Khan, Friday said that her brother has instructed the party to launch the movement after Muharram 10 (Ashura) for which a plan has been thrashed out.

Talking to the media outside the Anti-Terrorism Court in Rawalpindi, she quoted the party founder chairman as saying that instead of passing the 27th constitutional amendment, monarchy may be established in Pakistan.

Aleema Khan said that they had prepared a plan well before the movement and that the party wanted that the people should come out for their freedom. “It is better for me to stay in jail than slavery,” she quoted her brother as saying.

She said that the kind of imprisonment the PTI founder is experiencing, his opponents cannot even think of it; he says that he is in the cell for 22 hours and is taken out for only two hours.

Aleema Khan said that for Nawaz Sharif food was sent from home and that he used to meet hundreds of people; all the prison facilities of the party founder have been abolished, he is not allowed to talk to children and he is not even given books.

To the contrary, she pointed out that PMLN supremo Nawaz Sharif and his daughter were in the rest house and all the facilities were made available to them.

Separately, former Speaker National Assembly and central leader of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf Asad Qaiser held an important meeting with Balochistan National Party (BNP Mengal) senior leader Sajid Khan Tareen at the Parliament House.

The movement for protection of the Constitution, the current political situation of the country and especially the situation in Balochistan were discussed in detail in the meeting.

Asad Qaiser strongly condemned the FIA notices and FIRs registered against BNP Mengal chief Sardar Akhtar Jan Mengal and his family members, saying that targeting political leaders for revenge is dangerous for democratic values.

“Such an approach is weakening constitutional supremacy and the rule of law in the country,” he contended. The meeting emphasised that all political parties must play an active role for the supremacy of democracy, the constitution and the rule of law in the country.