Imran only concerned with polls in 90 days.

KARACHI -- PTI ChairAman Imran Khan said it would make no difference if a five-member bench or a larger bench of the Supreme Court takes up his party's petition against delay in polls in Punjab as his only concern was whether or not elections will be held in 90 days.

'Whether it's a 5 [member] SC bench or Full Bench, it makes no difference to us [because] all we want to know is if elections will be held within the 90 days' constitutional provision,' Mr Khan said in a series of tweets on Thursday.

'Before we dissolved our two [provincial] assemblies, I consulted our top constitutional lawyers, all of whom were absolutely clear that the 90-day Constitutional provision on holding of elections was inviolable,' the PTI chief tweeted.

He said the incumbent government was 'cherry picking' constitutional provisions they want to implement and are ready to destroy the ConstiAtutions to 'whitewash their leaders'.

The 'imported government, their handlers and a compromised ECP' were making a 'complete mockery of the Constitution' by delaying the polls, he continued.

The PTI chief's comments have come on the day when the bench hearing the case stood dissolved after one of the judges, Justice Aminuddin Khan, recused himself from hearing. Now a fresh Supreme Court bench will take up the case tomorrow (Friday).

Lasting nerve damage

Separately, Mr Khan has claimed that his right leg suffered lasting nerve damage as a result of the assassination attempt on his life in Wazirabad in November 2022.

In an interview with UK paper The Independent, Mr Khan revealed that two bullet wounds to his thigh have healed, while the third bullet shattered his shin bone and damaged a nerve.

'I have had more problems with the impact of the nerve damage than the bullet wounds,' he said in the interview published on Thursday.

'I still can't walk properly, I still don't have proper sensation in my right foot. That's a lasting effect, which the doctor says eventually with time will heal, will go away.'

In a wide-ranging interview, Mr Khan also talked about the government's action, his party's elections campaign and foreign policy.

Talking about the current political situation, Mr Khan said what's happening today was unprecedented and he had 'never seen Pakistan sink to this level'.

He added that he was put in jail for eight days for opposing the military dictatorship of former president Pervez Musharraf but his time in jail was 'liberal compared to what is going on [now].'

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