Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, Chairman of the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP), demanded justice from the Supreme Court on Tuesday, as the country remains in a constitutional crisis following the dissolution of the National Assembly without voting on the no-trust motion against Prime Minister Imran Khan.
The PPP chairperson stated during a press conference following the party’s Central Executive Committee (CEC) meeting in Islamabad that the PPP has always fought for the Constitution, as they ended Prime Minister Imran Khan’s regime through a constitutional process.
Bilawal alleged that Prime Minister Imran violated the Constitution by foreseeing defeat. He stated that the PPP desired justice from the Pakistan Supreme Court.
“We have always admired the judiciary and hope that the court’s decision benefits the country and democracy,” he said.
The apex court’s larger bench of five judges is regularly hearing the case filed against Deputy Speaker Qasim Suri’s “unconstitutional act” in disallowing the vote of no-confidence against Prime Minister Imran Khan on Sunday.
Bilawal continued, “Former Chief Justice Saqib Nisar and Gulzar Ahmed polarised the judiciary, and this case has the potential to re-polarize it.”
The PPP chairperson stated that the PPP has never forgiven constitutional violators in the past and will not do so now.
The PPP leader continued by stating that the court should be briefed by the National Security Committee (NSC), as “we do not want certificates of traitor or patriotism.”
“We cannot accept the way he [Imran Khan] manipulated our national identity for political gain,” he said, adding that “whoever calls us traitors will face the consequences.”
He was referring to Prime Minister Imran Khan’s ‘threat letter,’ which he displayed at a public gathering and labeled the Opposition as traitors for hatching a plot to destabilize his government.
Subsequently, the PM convened a meeting of the National Security Council and presented the letter. However, in accordance with the meeting’s directives, a ‘demarche’ was issued to the US envoy.
“If we [opposition] were involved in a foreign conspiracy, I would have been arrested by now; therefore, it is clear that when the Prime Minister anticipated losing the NA majority, he scripted the ‘threat letter,'” Bilawal said.
Bilawal Bhutto claimed that Prime Minister Imran was a puppet of the foreign world who had been infiltrated into Pakistani politics with an ulterior motive.
