MULTAN,April 6th:Tehrik-i-Insaf Chief Imran Khan has forecast a collision between the government and the judiciary and said that it is looming large in the country as the government is busy in launching a dangerous confrontation, and pitting the executive and parliament against the judiciary.Talking to a delegation of PTI activists headed by Ijaz Hussain Janjua District President,Imran said it was the great tragedy that the government had been trying to control the judiciary in the garb of repealing 17th Amendment. He recalled the commitments of the present rulers made during the last election campaign wherein they had promised to do away with 17th Amendment. "Why they have included the issue of the judiciary and articles 177 and 193. The simple issue remains that straight away undue powers are withdrawn from the president and transferred to the prime minister and just revert to the parliamentary democracy." Imran asked why judiciary was unnecessarily dragged in controversies. He claimed the corrupt politicians would never tolerate free and independent judiciary. He said in the parliamentary democracy there was no role of the government in the appointment of judges. "Even in Britain no government functionary indulges in the process. The judiciary and parliament have separate functions, but here the government have inducted its nominee in the judicial commission also." About the renaming of the NWFP, he said it had no sense. The new name is ridiculous, he maintained.Imran said there had been historic loot and plunder in the Pakistan Steel Mills where with the appointment of a front man a loss of Rs30 billion was inflicted in two years. At the same time a check had been forced on the organisation that enjoys the public trust. He said the prime minister too appeared helpless in this connection. With regard to the Swiss cases he saw an imminent deadlock followed by attempts to malign the judiciary and brand them as a group of rightist elements.Imran said there had been no payment of taxes on the $60 billion retained in the Swiss banks. The judiciary shall lose its credibility if it fails to try President Asif Ali Zardari.Imran khan said that the18th Amendment had been introduced to the National Assembly at a time when the Supreme Court is striving to get its rulings implemented. It appears to be a conspiracy and the people had been confused, he said.