PTI moves court against possible arrests

LAHORE

Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf has moved the Lahore High Court against possible arrests of its workers in the province ahead of its November 02 Islamabad lockdown plan.

The petition was moved by its Lahore president Walid Iqbal. In his petition, he submitted that the PTI was struggling for the rule of law, supremacy of the Constitution, a corruption-free state, making the strong and weak equal before the law and for a strong functional democracy in Pakistan. The petitioner submitted that in Panama Leaks it had been revealed that family members and dependent of the Prime Minister and various other Pakistanis are holding high value assets outside Pakistan through offshore companies in complete mismatch of their declared incomes and wealth positions. He said the PTI realising its responsibility to raise a voice for justice to all and against the corruption committed by persons holding important status and responsible offices, started agitation in order to give awareness to the general public and for accountability after using all possible remedies against them. He said in this connection his party had planned to stage a sit-in in Islamabad on November 02. Walid Iqbal said in order to subvert this legal and Constitutional exercise, the government functionaries had planned to arrest innocent people, political workers of the PTI and other political parties going to participate in peaceful demonstration. He said it had come to his knowledge that the government functionaries had prepared a list of political leaders and workers from all over the country in order to sabotage their November 02 protest.