Elahi pins hopes on Supreme Court for ‘saving constitution’

Police raid house of Farrukh Habib’s in-laws for his arrest

LAHORE_ Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf senior leader Fawad Chaudhy said on Saturday that the rulers who were afraid of the power of the people had filled the whole of Lahore with containers.

Taking to Twitter, he said let alone allowing those coming from other cities, even the route of Lahore was blocked by placing containers.

He requested the people to reach at the rally even by walking.The government had tried to block all the ways leading up to the rally of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf rally and metro service was also blocked in this regard. Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) president Chaudhry Parvez Elahi said on Saturday the Supreme Court of Pakistan (SCP) would not let the land of Pakistan become “a constitution-less land”.His statement comes in the wake of the ECP announcement to postponed  election in Punjab unitil 8 oct which was earlier scheduled to be held on April 30 after the SCP had ordered the electoral watchdog to hold elections in Punjab and KP within ninety days of the dissolution of provincial assemblies.

He said the whole nation was standing beside the apex court to save the constitution at a meeting with PTI KP leaders ahead of the PTI’s power show at the Minar-i-Pakistan. “Today the party will write history and it will start the journey of getting rid of incompetent rulers”, he added.

Former Punjab CM said the Punjab caretaker government had resorted to “lowly tactics” by barricading the city adding that tsunami of people would fail them. “Pakistan’s public is standing beside Mr Khan and that is the reason why the rulers are not announcing elections”, he added. President Dr Arif Alvi, he said, had indicted PM Shehbaz in his letter.

olice on Saturday conducted an unsuccessful raid on the house of PTI leader Farrukh Habib’s in-laws for his arrest.

Reports said that the police left after searching the house.

Taking to Twitter, Mr Habib wrote, “Punjab caretaker government has made it a custom to degrade the sanctity of a home. Police kept harrassing my family and female members of my in-laws in my absence. We are not afraid of such “lowly tactics” and we’ll keep fighting for the real freedom”.