Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) will file a contempt of court petition against the government, alleging that the authorities have failed to implement the Supreme Court’s (SC) order directing the transfer of party founder Imran Khan to Islamabad’s Shifa International Hospital and have refused to comply with the court’s decision.
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Chief Minister Sohail Afridi said the government has insulted the court by failing to implement the Supreme Court’s order to transfer PTI founder Imran Khan to a hospital. He said that a contempt of court petition would be filed. Speaking at a press conference, Sohail Afridi said that the order had been issued by a three-member bench, but it had not been implemented.
Sohail Afridi said that following yesterday’s events, the situation had changed and their protest would now be intensified. He said that he had previously announced that two million people would gather, but the number would now be doubled. Meanwhile, speaking to the media at Parliament House, PTI Chairman Barrister Gohar said that after two days of relatively calm conditions, today had become a difficult day for the country and its people. He said that what happened last night was unexpected and that an application would be filed in this regard tomorrow.
Barrister Gohar said that he had always tried to keep the system functioning and democracy on track. “There are people who are trying to push us out of Parliament, while others are trying to keep us out,” he said.
PTI Secretary General Salman Akram Raja, earlier speaking to reporters at Parliament House, said that the party would file a contempt of court petition over the government’s failure to implement the Supreme Court’s (SC) order directing the transfer of party founder Imran Khan to Islamabad’s Shifa International Hospital, and accused the authorities of refusing to accept the court’s decision. Raja further said the SC had ordered that Imran be shifted to Shifa International Hospital, but “the Supreme Court’s decision was not accepted”. “The medical board that the SC had ordered to be constituted was never formed,” Raja said.