Pakistan`s former Prime Minister Imran Khan has condemned the police movement in opposition to him and his supporters as a signal of “fascism” withinside the country.
“Fascism at unheard of tiers with police in Islamabad raiding houses with out warrants to abduct PTI people. Where the employee isn’t present, youngsters as younger as 10 yrs are picked up,” Khan tweeted overdue on Sunday, worrying the instant launch of his celebration`s people.
The announcement through the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) celebration leader got here quickly after extra cases, which include terrorism charges, had been filed in opposition to him and different PTI leaders and supporters over clashes with the police at some point of his look in a courtroom docket in capital Islamabad on Saturday.
Khan on Monday additionally alleged a “plot to kill” him on the courtroom docket complicated – now no longer the primary time the 70-year-antique chief has alleged a conspiracy through his political fighters to assassinate him.
In a video address, he appealed to the country`s Supreme Court to take be aware of alleged plot.
“The Islamabad judicial complicated changed into complete of police and Rangers (paramilitary force). Yet there had been unidentified guys stationed there. As I reached the courtroom docket, my companion got here going for walks in the direction of me and instructed me to opposite the automobile and leave. He stated it changed into a trap. This changed into now no longer approximately sending me to jail, this changed into approximately murdering me,” Khan stated.
Khan appealed to Umar Ata Bandial, the leader justice of Pakistan, to permit his destiny courtroom docket appearances thru a video link.
“When I step out, my existence is at risk. Nobody is inclined to take responsibility. I simply need to request to thrill furnish me permission for video conferencing for a hearing, in order that I don`t get exposed. Even now I slightly survived, they could have in any other case trapped me,” he stated.
Khan changed into summoned through the Islamabad courtroom docket on Saturday in a case associated with nation presents he obtained at some point of his tenure because the high minister among 2018 and 2022.
Prosecutors accuse Khan of promoting the presents and now no longer affirming them in files submitted earlier than the election commission. He denies the allegation.
As he arrived in Islamabad to seem earlier than the courtroom docket on Saturday, masses of his supporters clashed with the police who carried batons and fired tear gas. Dozens of human beings and law enforcement officials had been injured even as numerous motors and a police checkpoint had been torched withinside the violence.
The chaos averted Khan from coming into the courtroom docket, which marked his look from his vehicle and cancelled the arrest warrants in opposition to the politician.
On Sunday, the Islamabad police stated they filed a primary data report (FIR) in opposition to Khan and lots of his celebration leaders, charging them with rioting, attack on authorities government, crook intimidation, and different acts of “terrorism”.
Police additionally stated they arrested almost two hundred PTI contributors for “arson, vandalism and the assaults on police”.
Ali Nawaz Awan, one of the PTI leaders named withinside the FIR, instructed Al Jazeera the crackdown on celebration people confirmed the authorities`s “high-handedness”.
“What the celebration and our leaders are going through is an onslaught. The nation has absolutely set apart rule of regulation and constitution,” he stated.
Since his elimination from electricity in April remaining year, Khan has time and again stated the authorities changed into making plans to arrest him to bar him from contesting the overall elections due later this year.
Another PTI chief, Musarrat Cheema, alleged that police withinside the jap town of Lahore “barged interior her residence with out a warrant” early on Monday.
“We are dwelling withinside the age of fascism,” Cheema instructed Al Jazeera, repeating her celebration leader`s charges.
Khan`s house in Lahore changed into additionally raided on Saturday even as he changed into in Islamabad for the courtroom docket look. In a speech on Sunday, Khan condemned the raid and stated the government violated the sanctity of his residence in his absence.
On Wednesday, PTI plans to keep a huge rally in Lahore, the capital of Pakistan`s maximum populous Punjab province in which meeting elections are to be hung on April 30.
“[The rally] could be extra like a referendum. It will inform the country in which the general public stands and in which the cabal of crooks and their handlers stand,” Khan stated.