On Thursday, Junaid Akbar, the president of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf Khyber Pakhtunkhwa chapter, acknowledged that his party has both direct and indirect ties to the establishment, saying, “We are not ashamed of it because they are our institutions.”
“We are not in conflict with any institution,” Akbar told reporters outside the Adiala jail in Rawalpindi, where PTI founder Imran Khan has been detained since August 2023. “All of them should stay within their constitutional limits.”
He called for a closeening of the divide between the people and the institutions.
The lawmaker said that their employees were being arrested and charged with several FIRs, and that the former ruling party was not allowed to engage in political activities.
He insisted that such measures would not scare his party.
