ISLAMABAD – The Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) social gathering on Saturday refuted media stories regarding hiring of a overseas regulation agency to symbolize ex-prime minister Imran Khan in international courts to boost alleged human rights abuses in Pakistan, hours after the social gathering itself made such an announcement on the social media.
A PTI spokesperson in a press release flatly refuted the social media stories regarding the hiring of a overseas regulation agency to boost the “worst human violations” in Pakistan in international courts.
“PTI Chairman Imran Khan by no means supported any such initiative even within the face of the worst state oppression and suppression and open violation of the Structure and regulation within the nation,” he added.
A day earlier, PTI from its official X (previously Twitter) deal with quoted a tweet of Doughty Road International, a bunch of main international legal professionals from Doughty Road Chambers, saying that PTI Chairman Imran Khan had appointed eminent human rights Barrister Geoffrey Robertson to advise and symbolize him in worldwide courts in relations to his illegal detention and human rights abuses in Pakistan.
Hours after these stories, some journalists criticised the PTI for the choice saying that Robertson was the lawyer of Salman Rushdie and had defended him within the blasphemy case in opposition to him. Defence analyst Ayesha Siddiqa rebuked some remarks from journalists and took to the X to say that “legal professionals obtained engaged by all types of people.” Many others on social media stated that such remarks from senior journalists have been tantamount to threatening the lifetime of Imran Khan who has been imprisoned in Attock Jail. Sensing that the problem can take a dangerous flip and political opponents of Imran Khan will use it as a “religious card” in opposition to him, the PTI deleted the tweet from its official X deal with and issued a rebuttal that it will not get providers of the regulation agency, in line with the official social gathering sources. The PTI spokesperson within the assertion additionally strongly “condemned the reign of terror unleashed on” the PTI leaders and its employees within the nation. He claimed that PTI neither approached any judicial discussion board outdoors Pakistan nor has any intention to take action in future. “There isn’t a fact within the stories.” The spokesperson expressed disappointment over the “failure of the justice system to rein within the rising lawlessness, widespread brutalities and open violation of the regulation of the land.” He stated that even then PTI demanded justice from the Pakistan judicial system and wished it to take the much-needed efficient measures to make sure supremacy of the Constitution and the rule of regulation within the nation. He stated that the gravity of the situation may very well be judged from the truth that the chairman of the biggest political social gathering of the nation was dealing with the worst political vendetta within the history of the nation. He stated that in addition to being the goal of a murderous attack and sabotaging the investigation of the assassination assault on him, greater than 180 “false, faux and fabricated instances have been framed in opposition to Khan in simply 16 months.” He stated that senior social gathering chiefship had been despatched behind the bars in frivolous instances in opposition to them. He went on to say that PTI had been on the receiving finish of the state’s violation of the structure and the regulation for the previous 17 months on the whole and especially since Could 9. The PTI spokesperson claimed that over 10,000 PTI employees, together with senior leaders and ladies, have been unlawfully imprisoned in jails, who have been fullly disadvantaged of their authorized and constitutional rights. He stated that after the disanswer of the assemblies of Punjab and Pakhtunkhwa, the Supreme Court docket (SC) fullly did not implement its order pertaining to the Could 14 elections in Punjab. He demanded that it was excessive time the judicial system of Pakistan ought to begin delivering justice and take steps for upholding supremacy of the constitution and the rule of regulation within the nation.