By Staff Reporter
LAHORE: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) chairman and former prime minister Imran Khan has called on President Dr Arif Alvi to take notice of the “brazen interference by intelligence agencies and some sections of the establishment” in the political sphere.
“The most recent reflection of this was the KP governor’s statement, saying he cannot give a date for elections to the KP legislature as that would be given by the intelligence agencies and the Establishment,” the PTI head said in a letter dated January 29, which was addressed to the president and posted on the party’s official Twitter account on Thursday.
The letter was sent to the president after a resolution was passed by the party during the party’s core committee meeting in Lahore on Sunday. It said that the resolution also drew the president’s attention towards the “brazen acts of abductions, sham FIRs, custodial torture and threats being meted out to PTI workers and leaders.”
PTI resolution
“The resolution calls on you to take notice and take action against all these actions that contravene the Constitution, laws of the land and fundamental human rights,” the letter added.
The development comes a day after Haji Ghulam Ali, Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa Governor, declined to give a date for general elections for the provincial assembly, asking the Election Commission of Pakistan to consult relevant quarters and take stock of the current economic and secuirity situation before deciding in this regard.
In the letter, Governor Ghulam Ali said he dissolved the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa Assembly in terms of Article 112 of the constitution upon the advice of the chief minister. He said clause 3 of Article 105 provides that the governor of a province shall appoint a date for general elections, which are to take place as per Article 224, read with clause 3 of Article 218 of the Constitution. “However, in view of the alarming law and order situation in the province and a series of terrorist attacks during the past few days, it would be advisable that before fixing a date for the general elections, the ECP should consult and take into confidence the relevant institutions/law enforcement agencies as well as political parties, to ensure that conduct of general elections in a fair, free and peaceful manner in the province is possible,” it read.
