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PTI Chairman sentence suspension: politicians take to X
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- Web Desk
- Aug 29, 2023

ISLAMABAD: The legal spokesperson to the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Naeem Haider Panjutha took to X (formerly Twitter) to inform the public that his client’s sentence has been suspended.
“The Chief Justice has accepted our request, while suspending the sentence, he has said that a detailed decision will be taken later”, he wrote.
چیف جسٹس صاحب نے ہماری درخواست منظور کر لی،سزا معطل کرتے ہوۓ کہا ہے کہ تفصیلی فیصلہ بعد میں لے لیجیے گا.
— Naeem Haider Panjutha (@NaeemPanjuthaa) August 29, 2023
Multiple politicians then took to the microblogging platform to voice their reactions.
The former prime minister and Pakistan Muslim League-N (PML-N) leader Shehbaz Sharif in a lengthy tweet accused the Chief Justice of playing favourites, pointing out that he became the monitoring judge in the case to save his “ladla” (favourite).
“The law is powerless before the watchman,” he wrote, lamenting that “this role of justice system will be written in the dark chapter of history.”
لاڈلے کی سزا معطل ہوئی ہے ختم نہیں ہوئی۔ چیف جسٹس کا "گُڈ ٹو سی یو" اور "وشنگ یو گڈ لک" کا پیغام اسلاآباد ہائی کورٹ تک پہنچ گیا۔ فیصلہ آنے سے پہلے ہی سب کو پتہ ہو کہ فیصلہ کیا ہوگا تو یہ نظام عدل کے لئے لمحہ فکریہ ہونا چاہیے ۔ اعلی عدلیہ سے واضح پیغام مل جائے تو ماتحت عدالت یہ نہ…
— Shehbaz Sharif (@CMShehbaz) August 29, 2023
PML-N president and former interior minister Rana Sanaullah re-tweeted his post from last night in which he was quick to point out that the PTI chairman’s release is not yet possible; “in other cases prosecution will have to be faced!”
وہ باہر نہیں آئیں گے — رہائی ممکن نہیں، دیگر کیسز میں Prosecution کا سامنا کرنا ہو گا!
— Rana Sana Ullah Khan (@RanaSanaullahPK) August 28, 2023
Meanwhile, Senator Faisal Javed Khan tweeted his relief at the time the decision was announced. “Praise be to God!”
الحمد اللہ رب العالمین!
— Faisal Javed Khan (@FaisalJavedKhan) August 29, 2023
PTI’s former Khyber Pakhtunkawa finance minister Taimur Khan Jhagra said hinted that the suspension may mark an end to what he believes was a “abuse of the law campaign” against the PTI chief.
The nation now expects Imran Khan to be released today.
The "abuse of the law" campaign against Imran Khan has sunk the country's systems far enough. We cannot afford more. https://t.co/1ZHwYMriJ7— Taimur Khan Jhagra (@Jhagra) August 29, 2023