Defense Minister Khawaja Asif has accused Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan of creating chaos during his nearly four-year rule and of being a “tower of arrogance”. However, he said that the government has no plans to arrest him.
In a fresh round of criticism, the former prime minister slammed state institutions after his party’s senior leader Fawad Chaudhry was arrested in a treason case.
On Wednesday, Imran Khan’s voice expressed fear today.
The federal minister claimed that Imran Khan is trying to put pressure on the judiciary and other institutions. He said that the judiciary and institutions that Khan Sahib kept abusing are the same institutions that supported him to reach the highest ministry.
The PML-N minister said that if the judiciary grants bail to Fawad Chaudhry, the government will not have any problem with it. However, he said that the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) is the plaintiff in this case.
Rejecting the claims of the government’s involvement in the arrest of Fawad, Asif said that neither the chairman of the National Accountability Bureau was called from the Prime Minister’s Secretariat nor Bashir Memon and asked to register a case like during Imran Khan’s tenure. went.
The defense minister also emphasized that the government will not abuse the law as Khan did during his tenure. However, he said that if there is a threat to the members of the Election Commission, he will defend them.
Fawad Chaudhry was sent to jail on two-day physical remand.
The District and Sessions Court of Islamabad on Wednesday night approved the two-day physical remand of former minister Fawad Chaudhry in the treason case.
The PTI leader was produced in a court in the federal capital after more than 12 hours of drama after his arrest from his Lahore residence on Wednesday morning. “Threatening”.
After obtaining interim remand from a court in the Punjab capital, the Islamabad police shifted the former information minister to Islamabad, where he was produced before the H-8 court.
The police had requested for Fawad’s 8-day physical remand, but the court did not accept their request and asked the authorities to produce the PTI leader on January 27.
Following the order, the capital police shifted the former federal information minister to the Counter-Terrorism Department (CTD) complex in Sector H-11.
The police – at the time the verdict was reserved – also took Fawad to the Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (PIMS) where he was medically examined and declared fit.
The former federal minister has vehemently denied all the allegations and demanded that the case be dropped as it is “fraud and the FIR is a hoax”.
Fawad’s lawyers told the court that the charges were politically motivated and since the PTI leader had given his statement in Lahore, his case should have been registered in the city and not in Islamabad.
