{"id":28374,"date":"2025-11-21T21:00:20","date_gmt":"2025-11-21T21:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=28374"},"modified":"2025-11-21T21:00:20","modified_gmt":"2025-11-21T21:00:20","slug":"qaisar-blasts-censorship-on-pti-black-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=28374","title":{"rendered":"Qaisar blasts censorship on PTI Black Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) on Friday held a protest demonstration in the Tordher area of Swabi in connection with its observance of &#8220;Black Day.&#8221; Addressing the gathering, PTI leader, Secretary General of Tehreek-e-Tahaffuz-e-Aeen-e-Pakistan, and former Speaker of the National Assembly Asad Qaiser sharply criticized recent constitutional amendments and alleged political censorship.<\/p>\n<p>Asad Qaiser said amendments to the Constitution &#8220;have always served powerful individuals rather than the public,&#8221; alleging that the government was &#8220;following the establishment because it knows it has not been elected by the people&#8217;s vote.&#8221; Citing an IMF report, he said Pakistan&#8217;s administrative structure was described as being in &#8220;dire condition.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He added that during the PTI government, Pakistan enjoyed bilateral trade with Afghanistan, but &#8220;trade has remained suspended for the past 40 days.&#8221; Qaiser said the party sought peace and employment opportunities, not conflict. Observing &#8220;Black Day,&#8221; he claimed, was meant to highlight that Pakistan was &#8220;moving toward a monarchical system,&#8221; where opposition speeches were being censored inside Parliament.<\/p>\n<p>Qaiser also criticised opposition parties, saying PTI had expected the PPP to oppose the constitutional amendment &#8220;in the spirit of Bhutto,&#8221; but &#8220;they too surrendered before it.&#8221; He alleged that Nawaz Sharif, despite &#8220;losing public mandate,&#8221; was altering laws from within the government.<\/p>\n<p>He said Imran Khan&#8217;s release was &#8220;not difficult,&#8221; but PTI demanded &#8220;justice for Khan.&#8221; He further claimed that state institutions lacked independence and that the country was &#8220;practically under the rule of force.&#8221; Qaiser urged the judiciary to &#8220;stand up for the rule of law and the Constitution&#8221; and paid tribute to judges who had resigned. He vowed that PTI would reverse all recent legislation, including &#8220;laws restricting media freedom.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Addressing the rally, PTI central leader and MNA Shahram Khan Tarakai also criticised the recent constitutional amendment, claiming it was designed &#8220;to strengthen powerful individuals rather than protect ordinary citizens.&#8221; He questioned why terrorism-related trials of PTI leaders were taking place in Islamabad courts when such trials &#8220;had never been held there before.&#8221;<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) on Friday held a protest demonstration in the Tordher area of Swabi in connection with its observance of &#8220;Black Day.&#8221; Addressing the gathering, PTI leader, Secretary General of Tehreek-e-Tahaffuz-e-Aeen-e-Pakistan, and former Speaker of the National Assembly Asad Qaiser sharply criticized recent constitutional amendments and alleged political censorship. Asad Qaiser said amendments to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28374","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28374"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28374\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}