KARACHI, March 17: The Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf on Saturday, condemning the widespread arrests of people protesting against the government’s action against the chief justice, demanded that all of them be released within 24 hours or it would launch a countrywide protest on Monday.
Speaking at a press conference at the press club, PTI leaders Zubair Khan, Ashraf Qureshi and others also condemned the government for the police attack on the offices of a newspaper and a television channel in Islamabad. They rejected the suspension of a few low-grade police officials, saying that the high-ups who had actually ordered the attack be taken to ask.
They said the judiciary and the media were two important pillars of the state and the army rulers who had violated the constitutions and had played havoc with other state organs were now trying to crush the judiciary and the media so that no one could resist their illegal actions.
They said that the chief justice was taking independent decisions which were not liked by the rulers and they feared that if the issue of Gen Musharraf getting re-election from the same assemblies was brought to the courts, the decision might not be to the liking of the army rulers, so action was taken against the top man to tame the judiciary, but the opposite was happening.
