Peshawar News

Imran vows to continue struggle for judges’ return Monday, July 21, 2008 Bureau report PESHAWAR: Expressing concern over poor law and order situation in the country, the Pakistan Tehrik-e-Insaf (PTI) chief Imran Khan Sunday asked the party workers to continue struggle to bring an end to the ‘unjust system’ in the country. In his telephonic address to the participants of a hunger-strike camp, set up against kidnapping of the party leader Inayatullah Chamkani, bad law and order, price-hike and food and energy crisis, he said the PTI’s struggle for restoration of deposed judges would continue. The nation would soon hear the news of restoration of an independent judiciary, he said. The PTI chief said the kidnapping of PTI Peshawar district vice president Dr Inayatullah Chamkani proved that the government and law enforcing agencies had been failed to provide protection to the citizens. He said July 20, 2007 was a historic day when the Supreme Court judges headed by Justice Khalilur Rahman Ramday reinstated Chief Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry and hopped the day was not far away when the judiciary would be freed from any influence and sacked judges would be reinstated. The hunger-strike camp that continued for the third consecutive day was attended among others by PTI acting provincial president Iqbal Afridi, district president Hamidul Haq, Zalo Khan, Muhammad Rashid, Fayaz Khalil, Zarin Khan, Dr Ali Haider, Noor Muhammad and Zahidur Rahman.