Former prime minister and Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan announced the start of his party’s ‘real freedom movement’ against the coalition government on Saturday.
“You have to stand up for law and governance in this country. I need the lawyer’s community for my country,” said Imran while addressing a lawyer’s convention in Lahore on Wednesday.
“Whoever threatens you, you counter it by threatening them back and tell them that the Constitution has given me the right to freedom of expression.”
Imran said that he will soon give a call for a long march to Islamabad, urging the nation and lawyers to support him. “Together we will establish the rule of law in this country and bring real freedom to Pakistan,” he added.
The former premier said that a society that does not have a rule of law gets destroyed. “Ever since they (the government) came into power after a ‘foreign conspiracy’, the country has been dismantled. What message are we giving to the youth by bringing such people to the power that only small-time thieves get caught here,” he said.
The PTI chief said that the current rulers have gotten rid of their corruption cases through NAB law tweaks. “The agencies whose job is to enforce the rule of law are breaking the law. The powerful can do anything in this country,” he added.
He said that in a country where there is no rule of law, the money flows from abroad and hence it does not have an ideology.
