Specifically, it has been reported that in a measure that has aggravated political instabilities in Pakistan, the government has vowed to dissolve the political party of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf led by ex-Prime Minister Imran Khan, who is currently detained.
Information Minister Attaullah Tarar stated this on Monday while addressing newsmen a day after Pakistan’s Supreme Court weighed in heavily on the PTI and declared the latter entitled to a proportionate number of proportional seats in the national and provincial assemblies.
Tarar listed some of the allegations made against the PTI, such as the instigation of riots and leaking secrets, as the causes of the decision. He also unveiled a strategy to file a reference of high treason against Khan and two other PTI leaders. He also assailed the Supreme Court’s verdict, saying that the PTI deserves some seats in the provincial assembly.
In response to the government action, PTI’s senior leader Sayed Zulfiqar Bukhari said the authorities are now in ‘complete panic’ and said the closure order was issued after the government ‘understood they cannot influence the courts or intimidate them.
Yesterday, only the Supreme Court legalized the PTI as a political party and endorsed its constitutional privileges to nominate candidates even if the party was unable to use a cricket bat as a symbol in the February 18 polls. However, the stations backed by the PTI contested and became the single largest parliamentary group.
The government recently declared the PTI an unlawful organization, and using legal experts’ opinion that this move foretells political instability in the future, ex-Governor Sindh Zubair observed that “the powers that be are attempting to eliminate the biggest and largest vote bank of the whole country, which was with PTI.
