Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) founder and former prime minister Imran Khan has written a 349-page letter to Chief Justice Yahya Afridi and Justice Aminuddin, from Adiala Jail. In the letter, he has highlighted human rights violations, election rigging, and the arrests of PTI workers.
In the letter the incarcerated leader detailed that from November 24 to 27, many PTI workers were arrested, and hospital records were sealed and altered. He claimed that despite repeatedly approaching the courts regarding electoral fraud and human rights violations over the past 18 months, justice was not served to PTI and its workers.
The letter titled “Meltdown of the constitutional order in Pakistan”, is dated January 24. In his letter, Imran Khan claimed that the current government had come to power through election fraud and unleashed a brutal crackdown on his party.
He mentioned office raids, violence against leaders, and his “illegal arrest” on May 9 from Islamabad High Court, which was later declared unlawful by the Supreme Court.
“When I approached the Islamabad High Court to seek relief against state repression, I was attacked. The Supreme Court later declared the entire operation illegal,” Khan wrote.
He further alleged that peaceful protests against his arrest were hijacked by infiltrators who incited violence to discredit PTI’s demonstrations.
In his letter, Khan criticized the judiciary for failing to provide justice despite repeated petitions against election fraud and ongoing human rights violations over the past 18 months.
“You are hereby called upon to exercise all powers vested in the Supreme Court of Pakistan to bring to an end the terror and brutality by the state and the suppression of democracy that are today denying the people of Pakistan their basic human rights. One or more judicial commissions may be set up to examine the grievances of the people of Pakistan, some of which have been referred to in this letter,” Imran concluded.
