Govt hatching conspiracy to divide judiciary: Imran.

LAHORE -- Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman and former prime minister Imran Khan has warned the government and 'neutrals' that the human rights violations can take ugly turn if they did not mend their ways.

'I want to tell the 'neutrals' that free and fair elections are the only way forward as their strategy of threatening the public has badly failed and backfired,' the PTI chief said while addressing the nation via video link from his Zaman Park residence on Tuesday.

The former premier reiterated that the responsibility of implementing the rule of law in the country was now on the shoulders of the legal fraternity. 'The government is hatching a conspiracy to divide the superior judiciary for its personal interests,' he maintained.

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Imran invited the lawyers of the country to participate in the Lawyers' Convention being held in Lahore on Wednesday (today) as it was high time for the legal community to put their differences aside for the implementation of the rule of law in the country.

On the other day, he highlighted, Barrister Hassaan Niazi was arrested and a series of fake cases were registered against him in different provinces.

The imported government and its handlers had also abducted several social media activists to silence their voice, he said, adding that restrictions were being imposed on media to silent opposing voices.

'The legal fraternity is not being allowed to function for the implementation of rule of law in the country,' he added.

The former premier stressed that every Pakistani citizen had to raise his voice for the rule of law in the country otherwise the situation would further deteriorate and provision of justice would become a distant dream from common citizens and human rights violations would further increase.

The gross human rights violations witnessed in the last 11 months, Imran pointed out, were not witnessed in any democracy.

'Unprecedented inflation has been witnessed during this period as the imported rulers have no plan to rein in the economic chaos in the country. Their complete focus is to find an escape...