SUKKUR - Calling President Asif Ali Zardari the biggest thief, Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) chairman Imran Khan said the government is sabotaging the courts in order to hide its thefts.
Talking to the media here, Imran said the government came into power through NRO and tried to hide its theft of billions of rupees. “The Supreme Court has issued contempt of court notice to the prime minister, because he did not fulfill his responsibilities.”
Khan stated that only the Constitution is supreme and not the parliament. “If the parliament starts providing justice, then the courts should be shut down… Parliament has its own responsibilities, the courts have their own,” he said.
Reiterating his party’s support for the judiciary, Khan said that PTI is standing with the chief justice and the Supreme Court. “The country’s politicians do not understand that the constitution is above the parliament”.
Imran said the government had put the state at risk in order to protect President Asif Ali Zardari. “The government should have resigned after the Supreme Court (SC) declared the NRO illegal,” he said, adding the the nation was not ready to accept martial law.
He also dispelled rumours about forming an alliance with former dictator Pervez Musharraf’s party All Pakistan Muslim League (APML). “We are not ready for any alliances,” he stated. Regarding the PML-N, he said the party was afraid to go to the public but said that “if the PML-N is serious, its members should resign from their seats in the national and provincial assemblies”.
The party chairman also said the only way to bring the country out of the “quicksand” was by holding early elections.