Adviser to the Prime Minister on Political and Public Affairs, Rana Sanaullah Khan has mentioned that the federal government is totally ready to answer any “uncommon” protest methods from the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) with equally “uncommon” measures.
His remarks got here on Thursday hours after the PTI introduced a brand new nationwide protest marketing campaign towards the twenty sixth Constitutional Modification which it strongly opposed in each homes of the parliament throughout its passage on October 20.
The protest name was given by the Imran Khan-founded social gathering’s Secretary Common Salman Akram Raja in Lahore yesterday, terming the twenty sixth Modification “an assault on the Structure of Pakistan and the judiciary”.
He mentioned that his social gathering would strongly resist the constitutional tweaks and added {that a} plan had been chalked out to organise a sit-in and an illustration throughout the nation.
Talking on Geo Information programme “Aaj Shahzeb Khanzada Kay Sath”, the ruling Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) senior chief mentioned that PTI’s protest name was meant to cease the financial progress and create uncertainty within the nation.
Pointing in the direction of the “low attendance” within the PTI’s earlier energy reveals and protests, Sanaullah was of the view that the previous ruling social gathering couldn’t collect a lot of protesters which could possibly be troublesome for the federal government to deal with.
He, nonetheless, mentioned that in case of any “uncommon plan” by the previous ruling social gathering, the federal authorities would take “uncommon measures” to deal with the state of affairs.
To a query, Sanaullah dispelled speculations of any deal between the PTI with the coalition authorities, which allegedly led to the discharge of PTI founder Imran Khan’s spouse Bushra Bibi from jail.
He categorically rebuffed the deal rumours, saying that placing a deal was not potential with the court docket.
Commenting on the previous first woman’s launch, the politician-cum-lawyer burdened that the court docket at all times takes a lenient resolution if a case will not be concluded in six to eight months.
He was additionally questioned in regards to the probabilities of the twenty sixth Constitutional Modification’s revocation through a Supreme Courtroom’s bench fashioned underneath Follow and Process regulation.
Sanaullah dominated out the potential for the constitutional package deal being struck down by court docket, saying parliament has determined to “assert” its authority “and nobody would attempt to violate Article 239 of the Structure”.