PPP offers legal aid to Imran

E-Paper | April 29, 2026

LAHORE, Aug 1: PPP Secretary-General Sardar Latif Khosa has said his party is ready to provide legal aid to PTI chairman Imran Khan in the contempt case.

“Issuance of contempt notice to Imran Khan is tantamount to silencing parliamentarians. To criticise court decisions is the right of every public representative,” Mr Khosa said at a press conference here on Thursday.

He said the PPP supported a resolution of the Lahore High Court Bar Association, demanding presidential reference against Chief Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry, Justice Jawad S. Khwaja and Justice Sheikh Azmat Saeed for their alleged violation of the Constitution in their judgment on the election of the president.

He said even a civil judge did not give a verdict without hearing both parties to a case.

The former governor said the 18-month extension to the CJP could not be granted as an amendment was required in the constitution for the purpose.

He said Fakhruddin G. Ebrahim should now tell the people of the country who had pressured the Election Commission of Pakistan to ensure the victory of the PML-N. He said other members on the ECP should also resign.

Mr Khosa criticised Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif for “gifting” important posts like that of president of the country and Punjab governor to his favourites. “Mr Sharif is trying to impose dictatorship on the people but his dream of becoming Amirul Momineen will not materialise,” he said.

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S.A.K.Rahmani

Aug 02, 2013 07:20am

It is nice of PPP to offer legal help to Mr.Imran Khan;but,the initial mistake was made by the PPP government,when it reinstated all judges who had failed to protect and presrve the Constitutuion of Pakistan,when General Pervez Musharraf & his collegues staged a coup on 13 October,1999,and on the other hand took Oath of Office prescribed by the General in January 2000,which act made the suoerior court judges accomplices iof General P.Musharraf in destroying the Constitution of Pakisrtan.

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Qureshi

Aug 04, 2013 01:46am

The word most used in Pakistan is democracy. Recent events have shown that Pakistanis would not know democracy if it hit them right between the eyes. Like the blind men and the elephant, they are interpreting democracy in terms of their feudal and colonial past. The contempt charge against Imran Khan represents contempt for freedom of speech. The military strongmen are gone, but the still extant deep state is alive and well and kicking butt in Pakistan. Somebody ought to tell the Chief: Look Jacko, you are not the Emir of Bahrain. As a citizen, Imran Khan is the only sovereign here. If he offends you, well, too bad. Look for another job.

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sja

Aug 05, 2013 01:10am

The Tsunamists IMRAN KHAN now knows pretty well, there is tons of free legal advice for him count the legal stalwarts offering him advise free to be on the bandwagon, Aitzaz Hussain, SARDAR KHOSA, they all have some love time with the SUPREME COURT THEMSELVES and they would love to drag IMMATURE IMRAN KHAN TO some more publicity stunts. The fact of the matter of is the TSunamist has a LONG NOSE and no SHARAM in POLITICS so he said to the court the word in opposite sharam first and nak second, does he really have any Sharam but sure he does have a very long nose to smell TROUBLE EVERYWHERE where he lost so badly. TERRIBLE or more appropriatel IMMATURE IMRAN KHAN.

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sja

Aug 05, 2013 01:18am

@Qureshi: As a citizen, Imran Khan is the only sovereign here. If he offends you, well, too bad. Look for another job.----------------- you did not hear the CHIEF JUSTICE teach him some law under section 173 about immature khan's outburst, the allama tahir quardri also thought he was a champion judicial scholar, but he lost his own case when he could not define his own motive, everyone has a right to THINK, but to think RIGHT is the most difficult thing, Qureshi please note we are all sovereign, if you loose you loose here like the Immature Imran Khan who not only Lost election heavily in Punjab, where he was touting to cage in the LION, so bad with his Tsunami, but he himself had a fall in his own Tsunami, so in some constituencies but he LOST HIS PROVERBIAL KPK temper also, if you know what I really mean, who should look for another job Mr Qureshi, the immature IMRAN KHAN??

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