[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text dp_text_size=”size-4″]Imran Khan, the leader of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI), petitioned the Supreme Court (SC) on Thursday, urging the apex court to take note of the “undeclared martial law” in areas of the country and the continued violent assault on his party.
Imran has asked the Supreme Court, through his lawyer Hamid Khan, to investigate the government’s decision to “call in the aid of the armed forces in the Federal Capital Territory, Punjab, Balochistan, and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (K-P) in the purported exercise of powers under Article 245 of the Constitution.”
“The dictated exercise of this power by the federal cabinet in the absence of objective conditions for exercising that power is clearly violative of fundamental rights,” according to the petition.
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Imran further requested that the Supreme Court create a panel chaired by a SC judge to investigate the events leading up to his arrest on May 9 and following incidents.
Notably, proceedings against 16’miscreants’ who reportedly attacked military posts and disrespected martyrs’ memorials following the former prime minister’s detention are set to be heard by military courts.
In the case, several questions were raised before the Supreme Court, not only regarding the nature of Imran’s detention, which the SC had already pronounced illegal, but also about the use of the Army Act 1952 and the Official Secrets Act 1923 against civilian offenders.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
