ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) will protest nationwide against the disappearance of focal person on digital media to PTI chief Imran Khan, Azhar Mashwani, today afternoon.
A PTI spokesperson had said in a statement Wednesday that nationwide protests will be staged against the disappearance of PTI social media activist Azhar Mashwani. The protests will be organised at 3:00 pm across the country.
It is to mention here that Mashwani went missing on March 23, while his wife wrote a letter to the Chief Justice of Pakistan Umar Ata Bandial to take notice of the situation.
In her letter, Mashwani’s wife demanded the Supreme Court’s Human Rights Cell take notice of the activist’s disappearance. She stated that the activist was missing for several days after he came out of Imran Khan’s Zaman Park residence last Friday.
The former prime minister and Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf Chairman Imran Khan also condemned the ‘abduction’ of the party’s social media head Azhar Mashwani, lambasting Punjab and Islamabad police for ‘breaking all the laws with impunity’.
According to the party officials, protests will start at 3 p.m. at several district headquarters across Punjab including Khushab, Sargodha, Rawalpindi, Bhakkar, Attok, Lahore, Nankana Sahib, Sheikhupura, Kasur, Gujranwala, Sialkot, Narowal, Mandi Bahauddin, Gujrat, Faisalabad, Sahiwal, Okara, Pakpatan, Jhang, Multan, Khanewal, Vehari, Bahawalnagar, Muzaffargarh, Bahawalpur, Kot Addu, Rahim Yar Khan, Layyah and Rajanpur. In Islamabad, the protest will be held in front of National Press Club.
“Azhar Mashwani was abducted”
Taking to Twitter, the former premier claimed that Azhar Mashwani was “abducted on Thursday afternoon from Lahore and his whereabouts were unknown”. “Enough is enough. Police in Punjab [and] Islamabad are breaking all laws with impunity as they target PTI,” Imran Khan wrote on Twitter as he demanded immediate release of the party’s activist.
The PTI chief claimed that Senator Shibli Faraz and Omar Sultan, were on March 18, ‘badly beaten’ by Islamabad police despite both having permission to be inside Judicial Complex.
“Hassaan Niazi [Imran Khan’s newphew] was abducted [immediately] after getting bail and later charged with sham FIRs to keep him locked up,” Imran said, announcing to send pictures of Punjab and Islamabad Inspector-Generals (IGs) and officers indulged in ‘criminal behaviour’ to international Human Rights organisation.
Giving reason to send pictures of IGs, Khan said that the international Human Rights organisation can identify those working for the state and indulging in abductions, illegal break-ins into homes, violence and custodial torture against political leaders and unarmed workers of PTI.
It is to mention that Azhar Mashwani went missing from Lahore a few days ago and he has not been traced untill today.
