Pakistan includes former PM Imran Khan on foreign travel ban list

May 26. (EUROPE PRESS) –

The Pakistani authorities have included former Prime Minister Imran Khan and other senior officials from the opposition Pakistan Tehrik-e-Insaf (PTI) party on a list of travel bans following violent incidents on 9 May following the arrest of the prominent politician in the framework of an alleged case for corruption.

“I want to thank the Government for putting my name on the travel ban list, since I have no plans to travel abroad as I have no property, no business or even bank accounts outside the country,” Jan ironized in a message on your account on the social network Twitter. “Even if I had the opportunity to take a vacation, I would go to the northern mountains (of Pakistan), my favorite place on earth,” she stressed.

Sources cited by the Pakistani television network Geo TV have highlighted that the list has also included senior PTI officials Murad Said, Hamad Azhar, Qasim Suri, Asad Qaiser, Yasmin Rashid and Mian Aslam Iqbal, as well as Jan’s wife Bushra Bibi, recently released after being also arrested in the framework of a case for alleged corruption.

On the other hand, Jan has canceled the membership of the PTI of several leaders of the formation that have recently left its ranks after the riots of May 9, including its general secretary, Asad Umar; the vice president, Fauad Chaudhri; and former ministers Shirín Mazari and Aamer Mehmud Kiani, as reported by the Pakistani newspaper ‘Dawn’. The riots that broke out after Jan’s arrest, which included attacks on military installations, have sparked widespread criticism of the opposition party.

Indeed, Pakistan’s Defense Minister Jauaja Asif said on Wednesday that the government is considering banning the party. “A decision has not yet been taken, but there is a review underway,” he said, before criticizing that “until now, (Jan) has not clearly condemned (the cases of violence).”

Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif said on Monday that the events of May 9 are “an indication of a terrorist and anti-Pakistani agenda.” “I trust that the law will follow its course and that all those involved in these terrorist acts will be brought to justice so that these acts are not repeated until the end of the world,” he concluded.

The former prime minister was dismissed after a motion of no confidence in Parliament, approved after the Supreme Court reversed the decision of the then prime minister to dissolve Parliament and announce early elections after the refusal of the presidency of the legislative body to hold the vote In the first instance. In November, he was shot after being shot during a protest against the new government.