ISLAMABAD (National Times) – Former prime minister and Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) chairman Imran Khan has announced to challenge Lahore High Court’s verdict over Punjab Chief Minister election in the Supreme Court.

Addressing an event of the Islamabad High Court Bar Association (IHCBA) on Thursday, he accused the Punjab government of interfering in by-elections of 20 constituencies and two of the PTI candidates told him about receiving phone calls to not to contest election on PTI ticket.

On the other hand, he said, the allies of the coalition government were raising fingers on the government over local body elections in Sindh, adding that the police was used in the LG elections.

Imran Khan said that no one trust the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP), adding that whoever is imposing this set up, is damaging the institutions and free and fair elections should be held in the country, whereas, Sindh and Punjab like election will only increase chaos.

The former PM said that the media was pressurized after regime change, whereas independence was a major reason for which Pakistan came into being and the whole struggle of Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah was to get freedom.

The PTI chairman went on to say that the nation is destroyed by giving NRO to the powerful, adding that the problem of poor countries is that the powerful do not get punished, whereas, billions of dollars are stolen from poor countries every year and $7 billion of poor countries are in the offshore companies.