PTI calls on CJP Bandial to take suo motu action against govt's 'illegal' move.

ISLAMABAD -- Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Secretary General Asad Umar Saturday penned a letter to Chief Justice of Pakistan (CJP) Umar Ata Bandial and asked him to take suo motu notice against the Pakistan Democratic Movement-led government's "illegal" actions against his party chief, Imran Khan.

Umar, in the letter, mentioned that the Islamabad High Court (IHC) had barred law enforcers from arresting Khan in the Toshakhana case and the Lahore High Court prohibited his arrest in nine cases.

He stated that as Khan was en route to Islamabad today to appear before a trial court, the Punjab Police stormed his Zaman Park residence in Lahore, while the "doors and walls have been raised to the ground".

The police have arrested around 40 PTI workers - four days after they battled at the same place when the police had arrived to arrest the former prime minister in the Toshakhana case.

In the prevailing circumstances, Umar told the CJP that he has "firm reasons" to believe that the state in order to take revenge on the PTI chief is "hell-bent to compromise the liberty of Imran Khan in the most unlawful manner".

"And it has been reiterated by Imran Khan time and again his life is at stake...