ISLAMABAD: PTI leader Shahbaz Gill Tuesday urged the establishment to play its constitutional role and stay away from interfering in the civilian domain per the constitutional provisions.
Speaking to media here outside Supreme Court, Shahbaz Gill said that the establishment would have to decide whether it wanted to keep interfering into the civilian domain.
“But it it wants to keep interfering, it would have to amend the Constitution. However, since its interference in civilian domain is not a constitutional provision, the establishment needs to play its constitutional role and stay away,” he added while responding to a question.
He also alleged that the [diplomatic] cypher was concealed from the then Prime Minister Imran Khan and foreign minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi and was only shared when confronted by Shah Mahmood Qureshi.
However, Foreign Office later in the day refuted the claim made by Gill, saying that the cypher was not concealed from the then foreign minister.
Gill urged the apex court to order an investigation into the cypher which was a part of a regime change in Pakistan. He said that the PTI was also bringing a statement, implying that the could not get its chief minister elected in Punjab as he could abduct five more PTI lawmakers.
He also criticised the PML-N government for using police against the PTI activists and detaining and torturing them, saying that the PTI would never victimise its opponents. He also alleged that the Punjab government had used its state machinery to rig the recently-held by-elections in Punjab and despite massive rigging, PTI had defeated the PML-N turncoats.
Gill also argued that the handlers of the imported government were equally responsible for economic chaos the country is faced with today. He also criticised IGP Punjab for raiding Punjab Assembly building on orders of an illegal chief minister and bringing the parliamentary supremacy into disrepute.
He said that the party was getting ready lists of bureaucrats especially chief secretary Punjab who had become a tool to target the political workers in violation of the law. He also urged the superior judiciary to take action against the use of brute force against the workers of the PTI.
He also said that the PTI lawmakers had tendered resignations from National Assembly and it would not review its decision. He claimed that the PTI had the support of the lawmakers that it can remove Hamza Shehbaz as chief minister Punjab. He said that the PTI would file a contempt of court petition against Rana Sanaullah for his statement about abducting five PTI lawmakers.
