ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) chairman Imran Khan on Tuesday appealed to the country’s top court to play its role in stopping police brutality in Islamabad where protesters are engaged in sit-ins against the government.

Addressing participants at the ongoing protest, Khan highlighted the sacrifices rendered by people for the supremacy of the judiciary, adding that it was the responsibility of the Supreme Court to fulfil its constitutional role in order to safeguard democracy.

He also said that protesters were now ready to battle with police after enduring their "unending brutality".

He vowed that a “sea of protesters” would gather at the sit-in on Friday and would remove obstacles and containers placed in an illegal manner and also made an allusion to a possible civil war in the country.

The PTI chairman was engaged in a war of words with former chief justice Ifitkhar Muhammad Chaudhry after he accused the latter for his alleged involvement in rigging in the 2013 elections but has expressed confidence in Chief Justice Nasirul Mulk.

Earlier on Monday, Khan had also called upon CJ Nasirul Mulk to take suo motu notice of the police crackdown on peaceful protesters of his party.

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Heaping scorn on Khan, Minister for Planning and Development said that the PTI chairman had now resorted to threatening the country’s top court, adding that the PTI chief’s maniacal desire to become the premier was proving to be expensive for the nation.

He said that Khan was threatening the Supreme Court to issue a judgement in his favour otherwise there would be a civil war in the country.