PTI to court arrests if polls go beyond 90 days.

ISLAMABAD -- Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan said on Monday his 'Jail Bharo Tehreek' would start if the general elections to the two provincial assemblies, Punjab and Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, went beyond the constitutional period of 90 days.

In a video address, the former prime minister sought names of volunteers for courting arrest as part of the movement. He asked the people to come forward in response to his call, which, he said, would restore real democracy in the country.

'This is not politics but a war for true freedom, ie true democracy,' the PTI chairman said. 'If the election goes beyond 90 days, Article 6 will apply,' he added, while referring to the constitutional provision against high treason.

Imran announced the movement for courting arrests over the weekend in order to press the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N)-led coalition government to hold elections in K-P and Punjab and stop arrest of the leaders and allies of his party.

The Punjab and K-P assemblies were dissolved in January on the instructions of Imran in an effort to force Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif to call general elections in the country. According to the Constitution, the elections have to take place within 90 days of the dissolution of the assembly.

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