RAWALPINDI: Imran Khan’s sister Aleema Khan has alleged that the judiciary is being reshaped with judges who will ensure that her brother remains in jail.
Speaking to the media outside Adiala Jail on Monday, she conveyed the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) founder’s concerns, saying that recent developments have made it evident that the objective is to “keep him in jail and dismantle PTI.”
Aleema Khan alleged that the introduction of the 26th constitutional amendment was intended to appoint judges who would hand down convictions. “There are judges in the judiciary who can deliver justice, but they want judges who will keep Khan in jail.”
She further claimed that appointments are being made to the Supreme Court specifically to target Khan. “The Peca law was also introduced to control social media and imprison dissenters. The rule of law has been crushed to the point where none of us can expect justice from the courts,” she added.
Aleema Khan criticised what she described as a “three-year-long conspiracy” to marginalise PTI and incarcerate its founder. She claimed that after Khan’s government was toppled, widespread arrests and repression followed, including raids on over 100,000 homes and vote manipulation on February 8.
Referring to the £190 million case, Aleema Khan alleged that the judiciary had been influenced to uphold Khan’s conviction in appeal, which could be dragged out for years.
It may be added here that three judges from the Sindh High Court (SHC), Lahore High Court (LHC) and Balochistan High Court (BHC) were recently transferred to the IHC, including LHC’s Justice Sardar Muhammad Sarfraz Dogar, SHC’s Justice Khadim Hussain Soomro, and BHC’s Justice Muhammad Asif.
Senior judges of the IHC and legal community had voiced serious concerns over the transfers. Today, there was significant disruption at the IHC as lawyers had staged a strike in protest against the transfers.
The High Court Bar Association had called for a complete boycott of court proceedings, resulting in more than 80 percent of scheduled cases seeing no lawyer representation.
With lawyers absent, only law officers, government lawyers, and petitioners appeared in the hearings, causing delays and early adjournments in multiple courtrooms.