The authorities has been mulling choices for applicable motion in opposition to Mr. Khan and others for vandalising the property of the State.
The authorities has been mulling choices for applicable motion in opposition to Mr. Khan and others for vandalising the property of the State.
The Pakistan authorities is mulling to launch a sedition case in opposition to former Prime Minister Imran Khan and the Chief Ministers of Gilgit-Baltistan and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa for allegedly planning an “attack” on the federation throughout a protest right here final month.
A gathering of the particular committee of the Cabinet held below the chairmanship of Interior Minister Rana Sana Ullah Khan on Thursday deliberated on the problem of bringing sedition expenses in opposition to Mr. Khan and others following their “Azadi March” that left a path of destruction within the capital Islamabad.
The May 25 march geared toward forcing the federal government to name snap polls, however failed to realize its goal as clashes erupted between protestors and police.
The authorities has been mulling choices for applicable motion in opposition to Mr. Khan and others for vandalising the property of the State.
The committee was briefed concerning the PTI’s lengthy march and its formal plan to assault the federation, in accordance with a report by the state-run Associated Press of Pakistan (APP).
“The Cabinet committee deliberated to file a sedition case under Section 124A of the Criminal Procedure Code against PTI Chairman Imran Khan Niazi and Chief Ministers of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Mehmood Khan, and Gilgit-Baltistan Khalid Khursheed,” said the report.
The committee also reviewed the evidence regarding the PTI’s long march participants, especially party chief Imran Khan and the two Chief Ministers.
The meeting was later adjourned till Monday (June 6) for further consultations to make final recommendations to the Cabinet.
The Interior Minister urged the committee to recommend to the Cabinet to register a sedition case against the cricketer-turned-politician in light of the evidence.
The Minister said the march was an armed attack on the federation besides a mutiny.
He said formal planning was made to hold the capital hostage and Mr. Khan provoked his workers through his hate speeches against the federation.
Mr. Sanaullah said that the marchers were armed and under a plan, about 2,500 miscreants had already been brought to Islamabad even before May 25 and they tried to capture D-Chowk before the arrival of Mr. Khan.
He said the armed group not only attacked the police and paramilitary Pakistan Rangers and Frontier Corps personnel but also set fire to a metro station.
Earlier, Yousuf Naseem Khokhar and the police chief of Islamabad, Nasir Akbar, briefed the committee members regarding the law, order, and the long march.
The meeting was attended by Minister for Communications Asad Mahmood, Advisor to the Prime Minister on Kashmir Affairs Qamar Zaman Kaira, Minister for Economic Affairs Ayaz Sadiq, Minister for Law Azam Tarar, and other concerned officials.
The 69-year-old Khan during May 25 “Azadi March” wanted to make sure that his supporters could reach Islamabad unhindered for the rally which he had said would be used to force the government to call snap polls.
The government, which earlier banned the march, after Pakistan Supreme Court’s intervention allowed Mr. Khan to enter the capital with thousands of his supporters, but he refused to hold the rally at the designated place and asked his supporters to converge on the D-Chowk, which is located close to several important government buildings: the Presidency, the Prime Minister’s office, the Parliament, and the Supreme Court.
Mr. Khan’s supporters violently protested and police had to resort to teargas and baton-charge to keep them under control.
Mr. Khan, who was ousted from power in April through a no-trust vote, has been claiming that the no-trust motion against him was the result of a “foreign conspiracy” as a result of his impartial overseas coverage and funds had been being channeled from overseas to oust him from energy.
He has named the U.S. because the nation behind the conspiracy, a cost denied by Washington.
The PTI chairman has been protesting ever since and calling for recent elections as a result of, in his phrases, the incumbent coalition authorities led by Shehbaz Sharif of the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) get together was “imported” and never a real consultant of the Pakistani folks.
Mr. Khan led his hundreds of PTI supporters to Islamabad on final Wednesday in a protest and had deliberate to stage a sit-in till new elections had been introduced however abruptly referred to as off the sit-in on the final minute after making it to the capital.
However, he had threatened to return after six days if the federal government failed to provide a date for snap polls within the nation.
Source: www.thehindu.com
