Summary Imran Khan said that Pakistan cannot progress until top leadership pays taxes.
PESHAWAR (Dunya News) – Pakistan Tehrik-e-Insaf (PTI) announced on Tuesday that it will challenge Protection of Pakistan Bill in Supreme Court. Party Chief Imran Khan said that Pakistan cannot progress until top leadership pays taxes, Dunya News reported.
Imran Khan urged the authorities to assess politicians’ assets starting from his assets, adding that he’s willing to give away illegitimate assets if found any.
Addressing media, PTI leader Shah Mehmood Qureshi said that PTI has secured MQM and Jamaat Islami’s support for challenging the bill.
Earlier, National Assembly approved the Pakistan Protection Bill late on Monday amid strong amid volatile and noisy protests and walkout by the opposition parties, during which the opposition parties also tore the copies of the bill, and tried to access Speaker’s dais, only to be blocked by official parliamentarians shielding the Speaker.
According to reports, Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP), Pakistan Tehrik-e-Insaf (PTI), Jamiat Ulama-e-Islam Fazal (JUI-F), Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) and Jamaat Islami (JI) opposed some of the clauses of the bill.
MQM’s committee member Asif Husnain said Protection of Pakistan Bill will mostly be implemented on his party. Opposition parties also objected over proposed right to arrest anyone upon suspicion and over the power to transfer the case to any other court.
MQM recommended five amendments in the bill.
According to the bill, an accused can be held for up to 90 days and the transfer of trial from one province to another will also be possible.
The bill also recommends keeping the proceeding of trial of a terror suspect confidential.
