Those driving Imran, Qadri want to send PM home: Asma

KARACHI: Well-known legal expert Asma Jehangir has said that those driving the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) chief Imran Khan and Pakistan Awami Tehreek (PAT) leader Tahirul Qadri are hell bent on sending the Prime Minister home.

Talking to Geo News, She said it seems as if the law is of no value in the country as any individual can hurl any kind of allegations by pulling together a crowd of 10 people.

Reacting to the allegations levelled by the former additional secretary Election Commission of Pakistan, Asma Jehangir said she had opposed his appointment in the ECP.

She said had the former chief justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry been involved in rigging, then Imran Khan could also have played a role in it. "All this is part of a conspiracy to dislodge the Prime Minister," she maintained.

Asma Jehangir asked as to what it is that Imran Khan himself had done for the country. "If Imran Khan thinks that by resorting to such acts he can tie the knot, it is his mistake," she added.

Earlier, in an interview to a private TV channel, Afzal Khan alleged that former chief justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry, justice (retd) Tassaduq Hussain Jillani, Justice (retd) Riaz Kayani and former Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Fakhruddin G. Ibrahim were also involved in the alleged rigging of May 2013 general elections.