Staff Report
ISLAMABAD: The PTI has announced that it will file cases against the Punjab Rangers and the National Accountability Bureau over what it termed the “abduction of Imran Khan from Islamabad High Court premises by paramilitary forces”. It also strongly condemned the “abduction”.
Meanwhile, PTI’s Farrukh Habib alleges that the Rangers and police are “picking up peaceful citizens who came out for the supremacy of Constitution”.
In a video he posted on Twitter, uniformed men can be seen manhandling protesters. He asks: “Is it banana republic or Palestine or occupied Kashmir? Fundamental right to protest, right to assemble, right to speak – all banned.
The PTI also rejects the the “false, absurd and baseless propaganda” carried out against the party “using” the events that took place on May 9 – the day violence ensured after Imran Khan was arrested.
“The Tehreek-e-Insaf is a completely peaceful, democratic political party and believes in politics within the realm of law,” the statement adds.
The PTI has said that all the officers involved in attacks on PTI protesters, including the interior minister and caretaker chief ministers of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Punjab, will be named in first information reports.
In a statement releases today, the party expressed solidarity with PTI supporters who were thrown behind bars, only for opposing the “abduction of party chairman Imran Khan”.
The PTI, in a statement, further said that full legal action from the national to the local level would be taken for the re-lease of detained leaders and workers.
