Chairman Tehreek-e-Insaf Imran Khan said that the establishment is a reality and is above the law.Talking to journalists in Lahore, Imran Khan said that the situation in the country will only improve when the establishment works for the supremacy of law and if there is an attempt to reduce their mandate in Punjab, they will resist. He hoped that the current army chief will conduct a transparent election.

He said “that I am seeing political engineering in the country at the moment, they are bringing MQM together and sending BAP to PPP, seats to PPP in South Punjab and JUI in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. Here they are telling everyone to go to PML-G, they put a cross on Imran Khan, they have not learned any lesson from history, political engineering has sunk the ship”.

He further said that he would never sit in a weak government and stated  “if I knew earlier that the establishment would do this to me, then I would never have taken the government. I thought that the interests of the establishment and mine are the same. I thought that our establishment also has the same interest”.He said that the IMF has told Sri Lanka to cut its army in half, “when you are weak the lenders give orders, this has already started in Sri Lanka and Egypt”.

The sit-in of local people continued for the fourth day in Wana against the deteriorating law and order situation in south Waziristan, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa in which a large number of people participated despite the cold weather. Local leaders of all the political parties of Wana formed a coalition named Olsi Pasun, which means public awareness, and have been protesting for the past four days.Among the demands of the protestors, the establishment of law and order and the determination of the powers of the police top the list.

The participants of the sit-in are also demanding the release of a recently arrested local tribal leader, Jamshed Wazir, along with member of the National Assembly Ali Wazir. Negotiations between the protest leaders and the authorities on Sunday ended without any results. The District Deputy Commissioner of  Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, has been in touch with the protesters from time to time, but without the involvement and assurance of the military establishment, the protesters are not ready to end the sit-in and demand that the arrested tribal leaders should be released.

Senior local journalist Dilawar Wazir said that the Aman Paswan sit-in is a demand from the state to take indiscriminate action against all types of terrorists and to eliminate vehicles with black glasses, robberies and drug dealers in the area. The leaders of the sit-in are also demanding that armed organizations should be banned and police checkpoints should be established in all the markets of lower Waziristan on an emergency basis and police stations should be restored, otherwise their sit-in will continue.

In the Wana area of South Waziristan the sit-in of tribals and political parties against the unrest and target killing continued for the third day. The protesters demanded that incidents of extortion, murder and kidnapping in Wana has to come to an end and said that there has to be immediate restoration of peace in the region.

The Pashtun leaders accuse the Pakistan Army for creating unrest in the tribals areas and that they are behind the killings, forceful abduction, etc. The protest comes as terrorism is again rearing its head in the country, especially in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Balochistan. Pashtunistan is the geographical region in Pakistan and Afghanistan inhabited by the Pashtuns. Some of the worst killings of Pashtuns have been carried out by the Pakistan Army.