ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s government will seek to ban the political party of jailed ex-prime minister Imran Khan, the information minister said Monday, da...
: Pakistan’s government will seek to ban the political party of jailed ex-prime minister Imran Khan, the information minister said Monday, days after twin court decisions that favoured the former leader.
Both cases were considered a major blow to the coalition government of Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif. A PTI spokesman said in a statement that the bid to formally ban the party “is a sign of panic as they have realised the courts can’t be threatened and put under pressure”.The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan called the attempt to ban PTI “an enormous blow to democratic norms” and said it “reeks of political desperation”.
Islamabad used the riots as justification for a crackdown which saw senior PTI leaders jailed or defect, before Khan was re-arrested last August and barred from standing for office.
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