PTI supporters spew venom against judiciary

ISLAMABAD: In sharp contrast to Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan’s profuse admiration of the chief justice and the job done by the inquiry commission, his social media team is spewing worst kind of venom against the top judge, other Supreme Court judges and the judiciary on Twitter.
It is for the PTI to clarify whether Imran Khan’s praise and his social media team’s public condemnation of the superior judiciary is its deliberate policy, reflecting its hypocrisy.While giving his first-ever comprehensive reaction to the findings, Imran Khan, being conscious of the frustration gripping his workers, had exhorted them not be disappointed and demoralised.
Although the PTI chairman expressed his reservations, though in a low tone, over the report, he, as a whole, accepted it, and repeatedly showered lavish praise on the chief justice. In his view, the findings were part of the efforts to build a new Pakistan that he was making.
A large number of tweets, illustrations, caricatures and photo-shopped productions to vent out ire against the judiciary, which were part of the campaign to malign the apex court judges particularly those forming part of the commission, were unprintable and even unworthy of mention because of being highly profane, offensive and abusive.
Legal experts say most of the comments contained in this campaign are fit for a contempt of court case because they do not qualify to be permissible comments on the report as they personally attack and ridicule the judges, accusing them of corruption.
The rage that engulfed the PTI social media team kept intensifying even on the fourth day of the release of the report of the commission.However, in a Tweet, Jamiat Ulamae Islam-Fazl (JUI-F) spokesman Jan Achakzai said the PTI has orchestrated a campaign to malign the judiciary because the commission did not appoint Imran Khan as the prime minister. He also reproduced a tweet of the chief PTI troll, which asked the “guys” to “grab your keyboards and start trending #Courts For Sale as justice is only for sale in Pakistan.”
Senior prominent journalist and TV anchor Murtaza Solangi stated in his tweets that Imran Khan says he accepts the verdict of the commission and praises the chief justice but ‘look how his party people are badmouthing judges.’
“Here is somebody notorious as PTI paid troll, trolling against the courts of Pakistan after the report of the commission,” Solangi wrote and reproduced the maligner’s contemptuous tweet in which he said: “This is how a decision was made to decide” and then quoted a sentence of the findings to mock the judges: an election could potentially be organised in an unfair manner but still may represent overall mandate of the election.
However, there was also a sensible PTI element. Showbiz personality Hamza Ali Abbasi, who is a known PTI sympathiser, said that it was the first time in Pakistan’s history that a commission has at least formally identified chronic weak spots in the electoral system, needing a solution.
Zahid Abdullah, who is the author of “The Wise Man N Disabled by Society” and a Right to Information (RTI) activist interested in greater flow of information from public bodies to citizens, said, “Congratulations you have just top trended #Courts For Sale, keep it there, grab keyboards harder, don’t start watching #5th ODI.”
While the PTI social media team bashed the judges, he started trending that Imran Khan should apologise to the nation and kept it on the top for many hours. It was also stated that not even a saint-like personality, Fakhruddin G Ebrahim, was spared by the PTI chief.