RAWALPINDI: Awami Muslim League chief and former federal interior minister Sheikh Rashid Ahmed has lamented that fascism, lawlessness and barbarism are the order of the day in Pakistan.
The former minister wrote on his Twitter handle on Monday that after midnight two houses of “my friend Syed Qasim Shah were raided to arrest me. They ransacked the house on failing to find me there, and took his only 11-year-old son Syed Aoun Muhammad along with them.”
Rashid said his houses were raided five times and even the house of his mother, who died 30 years ago, was not spared. The personnel took away his three telephones, laptops, watches and cars. His belongings have not been handed him back despite court orders.
The former federal minister said there was law of jungle, tyranny, fascism, brutality and lawlessness in the country. He said he contested elections for one seat, but “my tweets don’t ensure me the right to live freely.” –Agencies
