Imran urges people to ‘come out’, defend country’s sovereignty

Interim prime minister Imran Khan urged people on Wednesday to come out and defend Pakistan against the 'latest & biggest assault' on the country's sovereignty and democracy by a "foreign power" through "local collaborators - our Mir Jafars and Mir Sadiqs".

"The people are always the strongest defenders of a country's sovereignty and democracy," Imran said in a tweet.

Earlier it was reported that PM Imran Khan had requested the Supreme Court to set up a Memogate-style commission to probe into the alleged foreign conspiracy to topple his government.

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“It is the genuine aspiration/desire of the answering Respondent [Imran Khan] that this honourable court which has taken cognisance of this matter should hold inquisitorial proceedings as done in the “Memogate case”, constitute a high-powered commission of judges of the Superior Court as done in the mentioned case.

“The said commission must analyse the incriminating evidence, take notice of the blatant horse-trading conducted by these corrupt politicians, some of whose family members are absconders of law and have taken refuge in safe heavens in the west,” reads a statement of facts submitted by Khan through his counsels Imtiaz Rasheed Siddiqui and Chaudhry Faisal Hussain in the suo motu case regarding the ruling of the National Assembly’s deputy speaker which rejected the no-confidence motion against the prime minister.

Well-placed officials of foreign governments commonly known as the “west” expressed their displeasure with the independent approach adopted by Khan and his cabinet, reads the statement.