Daily Times

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf chief Imran Khan on Friday warned of moving the Supreme Court of Pakistan if the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) refuses to hear the reference filed by his party for disqualification of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif.

Talking to media at his residence in Bani Gala, Imran Khan said the petition filed against the prime minister by his party was ‘a legal position that democracies follow’.

Despite filing the reference for PM’s disqualification in the ECP, the PTI chief cast doubts about the credibility of the electoral body, saying, “This election commission is N-league’s election commission.”

“Judicial commission has given 40 findings regarding rigging in 2013 general elections but no action has been taken so far [by the ECP],” he said.

He rejected the government’s claim his party was trying to destabilise democracy. “We are rather strengthening it,” he said. “Democracy began with magna carta in the UK when industrialists demanded to bring the king under the rule of law. And in Pakistan we are also trying to bring King Nawaz Sharif under the law.”

Imran said Darul Uloom Haqqania agreed to implement reforms in return for Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) government’s budget allocation of Rs300 million for the religious seminary.

“Musharraf received billions from the west for madressah reform and even Maulana Samiul Haq was approached but he rejected the grant, now they are ready for reforms as they trust PTI’s government,” he said.

Imran added that progressive reforms are being implemented to better integrate seminary students in to the mainstream, and said those opposing such moves know ‘little of Pakistani society’. “Are millions of students studying in these seminaries terrorists?”