The federal government has stated that the institutions will move on with outlawing the erstwhile ruling party as soon as they feel they have a solid case against the Imran Khan-founded Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI), which is facing a possible ban.
Federal Minister for Planning Ahsan Iqbal told a foreign news outlet, “When the [interior ministry’s] institutions have [necessary] evidence and they believe that they have a strong case in light of the law and the Constitution then they can always move forward [on PTI ban].”
The government, led by the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N), declared last month that it would outlaw the PTI, its bitterest adversary, due to the latter’s suspected complicity in the May 9 riots that resulted in the destruction of military sites.”The PTI and Pakistan cannot co-exist,” Federal Information Minister Attaullah Tarar declared at a press conference in Islamabad. He also mentioned that the government would file a reference under Article 6 of the Constitution, which deals with treason, against the then-prime minister, then-president Arif Alvi, and then-deputy speaker of the National Assembly, Qasim Suri.
Following the Supreme Court’s ruling on July 12, in which the highest court ruled that the PTI was entitled to reserved seats in the assemblies, the action was taken.
