LAHORE: Adviser to Prime Minister on Azad Kashmir and Gilgit-Baltistan Qamar Zaman Kaira has warned Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf chairman Imran Khan that the government would not allow choking of the federal capital by taking the route through judiciary.
“[You] will not be allowed to choke Islamabad through the judiciary’s route as neither the judiciary nor the government will allow you to do so,” he said on Sunday while referring to a letter the PTI chief wrote to the Supreme Court chief justice seeking direction to the government for allowing him unhindered access to his protest march on Islamabad.
“If you have to come to Islamabad then satisfy the government and the court, sit down [with the government] and negotiate [terms for the march with the government],” Mr Kaira said while talking to the media at the residence of Punjab PPP leader Osman Malik.
Munawwar Anjum, Aslam Gill, Azizur Rehman Chan, Afnan Butt, Barrister Amir Hassan, Faisal Mir and others were also present.
Responding to a question, Mr Kaira said that the apex court should also remember that Imran Khan had refused to accept any court verdict on the protest march venue issue in Islamabad when the three-judge bench had directed the government to give PTI access to H-9 Park for holding a public meeting there.
He said the opposition and the Supreme Court Bar and not the government had approached the Supreme Court though Imran and other PTI leaders had been threatening a bloody long march days before May 25.
He said none would believe that the judiciary was not aware of the actual PTI plans.
He told a questioner that had the government not stopped the marchers the judiciary and media would have been criticising the administration for not checking the entry of the miscreants.
Mr Kaira, who is also a senior PPP leader, said that his party had counseled then prime minister Imran Khan in its public march to resign.
He said that the PTI government was ousted through a democratic process without the use of any threat and intimidation, whereas Imran Khan had been attacking the constitutional institutions while in power and now planned to physically attack the federal capital.
