Imran can't lockdown Islamabad, only allowed to hold protest at Democracy Park: IHC
PTI has decided to challenge IHC's decision in the Supreme Court.
ISLAMABAD (Dunya News) - Islamabad High Court (IHC) has ordered Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) to hold its protest at the Democracy Park— the place designated by the government for all political and other rallies and events.
Hearing petitions filed against the PTI sit-in on Monday, the High Court Judge Shaukat Siddiqui asked PTI chief to assure that his sit-in will be at a specific place without disturbing public peace and routine activity in the city.
He ordered police to provide security to the PTI chief when he comes to appear before the court.
Meanwhile, the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) expressed no-confidence over the high court’s decision.
Speaking to reporters, PTI counsel Babar Awan vowed to challenge the decision in the Supreme Court.
“They had assured that no containers will be placed, but ‘Sharifistan’ has turned all the country into ‘containeristan’. We will knock Supreme Court’s door against this decision,” he said.
PTI chairman Imran Khan, a former national cricket hero, on Sunday vowed to bring a million people into Islamabad on November 2 to paralyse the government and force Sharif either to resign or allow an inquiry into the "Panama Papers" revelations about his family’s offshore wealth.
Imran Khan spoke to reporters in Bani Gala on Sunday
The ruling PML-N party has accused Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party of endangering democracy.
In an interview with Reuters, Khan said it is corruption, not protests, that threatens democracy.
On Friday, Khan’s supporters fought running battles with police in the city of Rawalpindi, close to Islamabad. Scores of PTI party workers have been detained.
The PTI chief has accused the police of brutality, and urged his supporters to lay low until Wednesday to avoid arrest.
His latest challenge to Nawaz Sharif’s government is based on leaked documents from the Panama-based Mossack Fonseca law firm that appear to show the prime minister’s daughter and two sons owned offshore holding companies registered in the British Virgin Islands and used them to buy properties in London.
Sharif’s family denies wrongdoing.
Holding offshore companies is not illegal in Pakistan, but Khan insists the Sharif family money was gained by corruption.
