PTI to launch report on HRs violations against party

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ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) is all set to launch a report today (Tuesday) which summarises all the human rights violations against PTI from May 25 till now”. While talking to a country leading Newspaper, PTI central leader Fawad Chaudhry said the party is launching a report on Tuesday (today) which summarises “all the human rights violations against PTI from May 25 till now”.

He alleged that the government in Pakistan is involved in crimes and custodial torture for political reasons”. When pressed on the allegations of a political witch-hunt led by PTI when Mr Khan was in power, Mr Chaudhry said: “This is a false parallel, it’s rubbish. There is a difference between what happened then and now.
As members of the embattled Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf face a slew of cases, late-night arrests and even alleged enforced disappearances, representatives of the party in the United Kingdom and Europe have sprung into action by staging protests, writing to MPs and speaking with human rights organisations to inform them about the crackdown against the party at the hands of the PDM government. PTI’s focal person for UK and Europe Sahibzada ‘Chico’ Jahangir said the party doesn’t want anything from the international community, but it is certainly calling upon the Pakistan government to hold free and fair elections.

“The European countries specially are very pro-democracy and pro-human rights,” the source said, adding that though “it is obvious no intervention is expected, they are keen to know our point of view regarding what’s going on”. Separately, PTI member and former National Assembly speaker Asad Qaiser approached the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU), a global organisation of national parliaments, about the “political victimisation, assassination attempts and attacks on PTI”.

Mr Qaiser wrote a letter to the IPU, which has 179 members, in which he criticised the PDM government as being “fascist” and accused it of “illegal policies and severe violations” of human rights. Mr Qaiser hoped the forum would take notice of the situation and play its role in protecting the people of Pakistan. In the last week, large PTI protests have been held in London outside Parliament House and 10 Downing Street, as well as a sizeable demonstration in Brussels outside the European Parliament. At each of these protests, chants in favour of Imran Khan and against PML-N leader Nawaz Sharif were heard.(INP)