Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) chairman Imran Khan on Tuesday appealed Chief Justice Supreme Court of Pakistan Justice Nasirul Mulk to save the country from anarchy, which, he insisted is heading towards a 'civil war'. The PTI antigovernment sit-in that entered 34th day, has changed the political landscape of the country with people offloading VIPs from boarding the planes for not reaching on time - a trend Pakistani VIPs have been practising since long.
But the movement launched by Imran Khan to eradicate the status quo politics has touched the hearts of the common citizens, who have been vying for change. The movement has gained momentum despite all tricks in the book used by the government to bar people from taking part in the sit-in.
Addressing the participants of his sit-in, Imran warned that a bloody revolution is writing on the wall take if the peaceful protest was hindered - a warning which came at time when government arrested thousands of peaceful PTI workers for taking part in the sit-in protest.
Imran Khan said that 30,000 policemen have been deployed around protest site at D-Chowk, who comes into action against the peaceful protesters when they leave the sit-in venue late at nights, adding besides harassing the people, the policemen majority of whom have come from Punjab province snatch protesters wallets and cell phones.
He appealed chief justice Supreme Court to play his in stopping the police 'hooliganism', adding people are being detained for nothing but staging peaceful protests for their rights after government failed to ensure their democratic rights and occupied the power through a fake mandate by rigging the last year elections. He reiterated his people's sacrifices for the supremacy of the judiciary, saying it was the responsibility of the top court to play its constitutional role to safeguard democracy or the day is not far when their will anarchy everywhere.
Imran is engaged in a war of words with former chief justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry for his alleged involvement in rigging of 2013 elections but expressed confidence in the incumbent Chief Justice Nasirul Mulk. The PTI leader warned that he would remove the containers himself along with his tigers and tigresses - a term which he often uses for his die-hard male and female party activists. If the 'gullu butts or Punjab police' stopped the protestors, he added, it would result in clashes.
Pakistan is facing the worst electricity crisis for the last over six years but the successive government especially the incumbent regime has been doubling the electricity bills without adding a single megawatt to the national gird. He flayed the government for the inflated electricity bills for the month of August, which were almost more than double that earned the wrath of the people, exposing the government which finally accepted that it wanted to pay off the circular debt.
Imran said that the government had already paid billions of rupees as circular debt to people who helped PML-N in sponsoring its election campaigns without any audit from the Auditor General of Pakistan. He ridiculed the government plea that it sent inflated power bills to consumers to retire the current circular debt - a move tantamount to punishing honest consumers and rewarding thieves, Imran declared, is in no way acceptable.
The PTI chairman also disappointed the government by announcing to celebrate Eidul Azha at the sit-in venue along with people who have been staging protests for removal of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif. "I'm ready to celebrate Eidul Azha here at the Azadai Chowk and to slaughter sacrificial animal right in this container...will you join me too," he asked form his charged crowed, who responded in affirmative tone with full throated slogans of 'go Nawaz go'.
Imran challenged Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif that he would call off his sit-in if Nawaz Sharif and his sons declare his asset details in England, Switzerland and European countries, but quickly added he knew Sharif would not go for that as it will expose his ill-wealth and the tax which he had been evading since coming into power.
Declaring Salman Shehbaz, the younger son of Punjab chief minister as prince number II for defending his father an uncle, Imran said: "The young prince [Salman] is quite good at telling lie like his father". Refuting Salman's claim that Sharif's did not own any sugar mills in Jhang, he showed the images of Ramzan Sugar Mills on projector as evidence that Sharifs have businesses in heart of Jhang and Chiniot.