ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Tehrik-i-Insaaf’s chief Imran Khan has said that parliament has lost its credibility after failing to implement its resolutions against drone attacks. And he asked PML-N to resign from the assemblies if it was serious about launching a march against the government.

Addressing a ‘solidarity march’ held to demonstrate solidarity with the Supreme Court here on Sunday, he said the PTI would urge the parties which were part of the All Parties’ Democratic Movement (APDM) to take part in a campaign against the government.

He said democracy could not survive without an independent judiciary and the PTI would ensure that judges worked without any pressure.

Mr Khan said if the Rs5 billion in Swiss accounts had not been earned through corruption then Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani should write the required letter about reopening the case.

“It is the job of the PM to protect the money of the people of Pakistan but he has been protecting a criminal.”

Mr Khan said people were dying of hunger and the government was raising prices of electricity and petrol and diesel.

“Today’s march is a preparation for a ‘tsunami march’ and I promise that when that will start both the PM and President Zardari will have to leave. We will protect the Supreme Court,” he said.

“The CJ should not be concerned by statements of politicians in the government.”

He said PML-N chief Nazaz Sharif could not remove the government by gathering ‘patwaris’ as he had done in Taxila.

“If he is serious about the campaign, members of his party should first resign from the assemblies. Zardari knows that if Nawaz Sharif starts a march he will return from the Ravi bridge.

If he resigns from assemblies, the government has to go for general election because Punjab is 60 per cent of Pakistan,” he said. Mr Khan said he had demonstrated courage and held a meeting in Quetta.

He said Mr Sharif should also visit Karachi and Quetta if he was aspiring to become the prime minister of the country and not only of Punjab. About parliament’s resolution expressing solidarity with the prime minister, he said the parliamentarians feared that if the Supreme Court reached the Rs5 billion alleged to be of President Zardari it would also unveil their corruption.

However, he said, “no one follows the resolutions of this parliament. If we were in the government and the United States had continued drone attacks we would at least have resigned from the assemblies”.

After coming to power he said, the PTI would take police out of the control of the interior ministry and MNAs would not be allowed to appoint station house officers of their choice.

He announced that the PTI would hold a public meeting at Liaquat Bagh in Rawalpindi.

PTI’s president Makhdoom Javed Hashmi said the nation could not expect a senior leader to be serious about the issue of judiciary when he had spoken against the institution in the past.

He said every person in Pakistan would sacrifice his life to protect the judiciary.

Former minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi said Prime Minister Gilani would have to leave because it was the demand of the nation. He said that despite claiming that he respected the judiciary, the prime minister had encouraged slogans against it at an event held at the Convention Centre.