On Wednesday, Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) chief Imran Khan strongly condemned the ‘illegal arrests and abduction’ of his party’s workers and leaders.
Taking to his official Twitter handle, the former premier highlighted that PTI Vice Chairperson Shah Mehmood Qureshi and Secretary General Asad Umar were still incarcerated “for more than a week now”.
He also stated that “despite court orders, journalist Imran Riaz Khan was not presented in court” with “confirmed” reports of torture against him.
Imran demanded the “immediate release” of all women PTI leaders, workers and the women family workers of PTI leaders. He questioned how Shehrayar Afridi’s wife was jailed.
“This is purely to spread terror amongst the people so that they don’t stand up for their constitutional rights,” he remarked.
He further added that he was “deeply disturbed” after hearing about former human rights minister Dr Shireen Mazari’s treatment as well as her “daughter being physically assaulted by male police officers”. He stated that after the Islamabad High Court (IHC) granted bail to Mazari and Senator Falak Naz, who were “abducted from within Adiala Jail and taken to thana secretariat where Dr Mazari’s screams were heard”.
Imran continued that the “video evidence coming forward of the barbaric treatment” of PTI’s women supporters was “reprehensible” and many women members of the National Assembly (MNAs), supporters and workers were “being held in jails across Pakistan under inhumane conditions, vulnerable to police excesses”.
“These abductions and the treatment being meted out to women by this fascist government are not only grave human rights violations but are strictly against our culture and Islamic teachings,” he stated.
Imran demanded that all these women be “immediately released” as their “continued incarceration is unconscionable”.
