Imran Khan’s lawyer and a spokesperson for the former government of Pakistan claimed today, on Saturday, that the decision of the Electoral Committee to bar him from holding public office for five years was the result of a stabbing.
The committee concluded on Friday that Khan sold official gifts and covert elements in his capacity as prime minister unlawfully. Under Pakistani law, Khan was deprived of assuming any public position for a period of five years and lost his seat in Parliament automatically.
The committee’s choice to exacerbate the ongoing political unrest in the impoverished Islamic nation, which is already struggling with an out-of-control economy, a food shortage, and the aftereffects of unprecedented floods this summer that killed 1725 people, forced hundreds of thousands to flee their homes, and contributed to an increase in the spread of malaria and other diseases linked to floods.
The committee’s declaration happened at a time when Khan, who was deposed in a vote to end confidence in Parliament in April, was organising his followers against the Shahbaz Sharif government and making calls for early elections.
On Friday, protesters and police exchanged blows outside Islamabad, the country’s capital. Later, Khan urged his supporters to separate peaceful and waiting for his call to demonstrate in Islamabad.
After the coalition government petitioned Sharif to take action against Khan over claims that he had illegally sold official goods, the committee made its conclusion.
According to reports, Pakistani government officials are permitted to buy presents, although they are not typically sold. If so, people are required to disclose it as income.
Khan, who came to power in 2018, was deposed in April by a vote to break confidence in the government. Khan alleged without evidence that Sharif had ousted his government as part of an American plot, but both the Prime Minister and Washington refuted these claims.
Khan, a former prime minister of Pakistan, contests the exclusion.
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