PTI senators again hold protest walk towards SC.

ISLAMABAD -- Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PT) senators on Monday continued their protest for another day seeking justice over the failed assassination attempt on former prime minister Imran Khan, alleged custodial torture of their fellow lawmaker Azam Khan Swati and mysterious killing of senior journalist Arshad Sharif in Kenya. The opposition party lawmakers led by Leader of the Opposition in the Senate Dr Shahzad Waseem once again organized a walk from the Parliament House to the Supreme Court to mark their protest. The PTI senators for the last over a week have been holding a walk almost every day demanding of the Supreme Court to take suo motu notice over their three demands. The lawmakers claim that they don't expect that they get justice from any another institution except the apex court over the issues including the assassination attempt on their party chief, custodial torture and video leak of Senator Swati and brutal murder of Sharif. At the end of the protest walk, former information minister and PTI Senator Shibli Faraz talking to reporters lamented that the members of Senate have been protesting for at least 10 days but unluckily, no one was taking notice of it. 'This is because we are representatives of the public,' he said. 'People are looking...

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