Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf chief and former premier Imran Khan announced that his 6 was suspending its ‘Jail Bharo’ movement as he welcomed the Supreme Court’s (SC) ruling in a suo motu notice over delay in the announcement of elections in Punjab and Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (K-P).
Arrests were offered by several PTI leaders and workers since February 22, as part of the party’s ‘Jail Bharo’ movement — a drive that had sought to mark a protest against the government’s policies and to put pressure on the government to announce elections.
Earlier this morning, the apex court announced its verdict after two-day-long proceedings in the case regarding the delay in the announcement of the date of the provincial elections in Punjab and K-P.
The SC has ordered that elections in both assemblies should be held in the next 90 days with the chief justice saying that “democracy cannot exist without assemblies”.