Imran urges followers to 'stand up for rights'.

LAHORE -- Speaking in the context of senior party leaders' alleged persecution at the hands of the state institutions, Chairman PTI Imran Khan Wednesday urged the judiciary to protect the fundamental rights of the party men in a situation when the country had become a 'banana republic' operating on the principle of 'might is right'.In a televised press conference on Wednesday, Imran Khan vowed that he would fight till the last ball and would not accept being subservient to an imported regime.

Addressing the judges of the superior judiciary, Imran Khan said that they had been entrusted with the responsibility of upholding rule of law and should play their role to get the country out of the prevailing uncertain situation.

The PTI chairman urged the judiciary, judges and legal fraternity to stand for the rule of law in Pakistan. Imran said that he expected the judiciary to protect the fundamental rights of the PTI people. 'Given the kinds of verdicts being given and how the Constitution and laws are being torn apart, there is no future for such a country,' he observed. He also questioned what was the crime of Fawad Chaudhry. 'Is it a crime to call the election commissioner a munshi (clerk)?' he asked.

Condemning Fawad's arrest, Khan said no one should be arrested for expressing their thoughts in a democracy. He said the government only wanted to silence the voices who speak against it.

He alleged that Interim Chief Minister Punjab was backing such actions against the PTI. Imran Khan asserted that the ECP was responsible for holding free and fair elections in the country. He reiterated that ECP had appointed a media person Mohsin Naqvi as the caretaker chief minister of Punjab who was a key player in the regime change conspiracy against his government.

Imran Khan said that Naqvi reshuffled the Punjab bureaucracy to hold Karachi-like polls, where PPP had no vote bank but won the LG elections as it was a part of the grand plan. However, Khan vowed that he would take legal action against Naqvi's appointment.

Khan urged his party supporters to stop fearing jails, trials and tribulations and unite against the imported government, which, he said, was hellbent on taking country towards destruction and chaos.

About the disintegration of the joint investigation team (JIT) investigating the gun attack in Wazirabad, PTI Chairman said that that JIT members were pressured to drop the investigation because it would have established the conspiracy for...

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