Salman Akram Raja, Aleema Khan condemn 27th amendment, call for nationwide action

PTI Secretary General Salman Akram Raja and the party founder's sister Aleema Khan sharply criticized the 27th amendment and warned of mass protests if demands are not met, 24NewsHD TV reported on Tuesday. 

They were speaking to the media separately outside Adiala Jail.

Salman Akram Raja said his party neither supported the amendment nor would they cooperate with it.

“We will tell the world that in the name of democracy, a charade has been staged in Pakistan,” he declared, adding that the state stands for the constitution and law.

He insisted the party placed Pakistan and its people above all and said his visit to the jail was conducted according to law, not through a confrontational approach.

Raja accused the courts of failing to implement their own decisions and stressed that a prisoner’s right to meet with his lawyer must be respected.

“If a court does not summon someone, then the court is also implicated,” he said. He warned that the next step could be taking the people to the streets and called for nationwide participation: “All of Pakistan must come out.”

Commenting on a recent explosion within a court precinct, he called the blast “regrettable” and blamed it on the same “barbarity.”

Aleema Khan said the 27th amendment had effectively buried the law.

She expressed sorrow over the explosion and resulting deaths and echoed earlier warnings from PTI founders that the erosion of the rule of law would fuel terrorism.

Khan criticised what she termed the diminishing impact of contempt-of-court actions, once powerful, now largely ignored.

 “The PTI founder has been held in solitary confinement for seven months. We will remain here until we are allowed a meeting,” she said.

PTI leader Aleema Khan also spoke to media at the Gorakhpur checkpoint, sharply criticising the country’s political leadership and reiterating calls for the release of former Prime Minister Imran Khan.

 Aleema Khan accused rival parties of undermining Pakistan’s democratic mandate.

 “Admit all you have received for life, yet why do you keep Imran in solitary confinement?” she asked, insisting that imprisoning him despite alleged concessions is unjust.

Khan called the Pakistan Peoples Party “slaves” of a broken system and charged that they had buried the constitution created by Zulfikar Ali Bhutto.

Aleema Khan alleged large-scale rigging in favour of the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz, saying the party originally had only 14 seats and won 170 “stolen” seats, and claimed that reserved women’s seats were awarded through the intervention of former Chief Justice Qazi Faez Isa.

She urged Pakistanis to stand up for their dignity and said the movement exists to show the world that the nation will defend its honour.