Pakistan Views

The chairman of Pakistan ‘Tahrik-e-Insaf’, Imran Khan on Saturday said that victors of February 18 elections would betray the nation if they violate their commitment to restore the deposed judges. Talking to the newsmen, Imran urged the winning parties to launch joint efforts to revive democracy and foil the ‘conspiracies being hatched by the presidency against the judiciary’. He advised Pervez Musharraf to leave the country for good as it would be better for him. He said that the whole nation and the entire lawyers’ community will keep an eye on the new parliament. He categorically stated that he would not contest the bye-election in the presence of Pervez Musharraf and the current judiciary. He said that no one accepts the present judiciary except the tyrant rulers and those judges who were sworn-in under the PCO. He said that the incumbent chief justice of Pakistan is still Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry who refused to bow down before the dictator and still committed with his noble cause.He blamed the United States for plotting conspiracy for creating a rift among the heavyweight political parties including PML-N, PPP and their allied parties. “The time is ripe for the victorious political parties to shun themselves from the US influence and represent the sentiments of 160 million people of Pakistan”, he noted. He warned the new parliament that if the sacked judges will not be reinstated within thirty days, the APDM along with civil society and the people from different segments of society would launch a strong movement across the country.”The movement will sweep away every obstacle”, he said. He termed Pervez Musharraf as a root-cause of all problems being faced by the masses and also underlined the need of an early change in the interior and foreign policies of the country and end of US war on terror in the Pakistan soil in order to uproot rising wave of terrorism and extremism.