ISLAMABAD: Today is a big day for democracy in Pakistan as the apex court has summoned Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan said on Thursday. He was talking to reporters outside the Supreme Court of Pakistan. “The Parliament did not play any role in investigating the Panama leaks case, but the apex court has now taken the first step in bringing the monarch under law’s ambit,” he said. The PTI chief said that more facts would come to light as the hearings progressed. However, he said the PTI protest would go ahead. “The protest movement will gain momentum now,” he said. Imran Khan said that the prime minister and his ministers had declared that the Panama leaks case would fade away. “When justice is not administered, then it is a political party’s constitutional right to stage peaceful protests. We will continue our protest as well as legal proceedings,” he said. The PTI chief said that state institutions ran on taxes collected from the people. “The National Accountability Bureau (NAB), the Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) and other institutions should have acted on the Panama leaks issue,” he said. Later, while addressing a PTI workers’ convention in Faisalabad, the PTI chief warned the government of a strong reaction if party workers were arrested ahead of the November 2 sit-in in Islamabad. Shah Mehmood Qureshi and Farrukh Habib were also present. “The prime minister must resign. He is destroying state institutions to cover his own corruption,” Imran Khan said, adding that the PTI would make Pakistan a country that was envisioned by Muhammad Ali Jinnah.