Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf leadership accused the government on Thursday of attacking the Supreme Court by creating divisions and passing legislations.

“An attack on the court will be considered an attack on Pakistan,” Asad Umar told media outside the Supreme Court.

The media talk comes a few hours after Justice Aminuddin recused himself from hearing the election delay case in the Supreme Court which led to the dissolution of the five-member bench.

However, the Supreme Court announced that a four-member bench will continue to hear the PTI petition against election delay and it will meet on Friday.

PTI leader Fawad Chaudhry added that the government was trying to create divisions in the court by pitting the judges against each other, and said that the constitution was being relegated to the dustbins.

“We stand behind the court,” Fawad Chaudhry said, adding that the internal matters of the court were not anyone else’s concerns.

Asad Umar added that the purpose of the legislation being introduced in the parliament was to interfere with the court’s proceedings as it tries to decide when elections are to be held.

He also said that if the constitution was not followed than the only social contract binding the country together would be nullfied.

He was referring to the bill passed on Wednesday by the National Assembly that limited the pwoers of the chief justice to take suo-motu notices.