PM Imran Khan is now a security risk for Pakistan, says Senator Sherry Rehman

Parliamentary Leader of the PPP in the Senate, Senator Sherry Rehman spoke to the media outside the Supreme Court of Pakistan and said that “The entire country is now waiting upon their lordships to make a decision.

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The fate of Pakistan’s democracy, parliament and its Constitution, all hang in the balance. It took less than one minute to vaporiSe our parliament. “We hope it will not take long to reverse illegal actions of a Speaker and Deputy Speaker who no longer hold the confidence of the House, just like their former Prime Minister.”

“While we wait the PTI’s desperate and blatant illegality has now engulfed the Punjab Assembly too, where barbed wire surrounds buildings and the Deputy Speaker himself was locked out of the Assembly on the day of voting for the Chief Minister slot. The pattern is obvious: use any means to move past the irrefutable fact that the regime has lost its support in both the Punjab and National Assemblies of Pakistan. Such a flagrant pummelling of the Constitution, which protects voting and No-Confidence procedures in Pakistan’s legislatures should not be condoned in any way”, she said.

“Khan has linked his political survival with weaponising national security charges that he is unable to prove, while his actions in the NA on Sunday show how he is willing to do anything to ensure his survival including the dissolution of the assemblies. No democratically elected government to date had ever committed such unconstitutional actions, so why did the failed PTI regime think it could? Khan is now a security risk for Pakistan considering how he has single-handedly pushed the country into dangerous instability and chaos.”

“There is no link between the “cable” that was described as “dash dash dash” by one of the former Ministers to justify the extreme unconstitutional act of illegally dissolving the NA while a vote of no confidence was to be voted upon.

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The Speaker’s action to link an illegal ruling to allegations of “treachery” against 198 members has plunged the country into an unprecedented crisis. We are waiting for the honourable court’s verdict to stabilise the situation.”