LAHORE: PTI social media activist Azhar Mashwani arrested on Thursday. He got arrested for criticising the Punjab police and caretaker administration for allegedly mistreating party members.
PTI chief Imran Khan said “enough is enough” after Mr. Mashwani, a former Punjab digital media coordinator, arrested.
“Enough. Punjab and Islamabad police are ignoring all laws to target PTI. “Today Azhar Mashwani abducted in the afternoon from Lahore and his whereabouts still unknown,” the former prime minister tweeted on Thursday, demanding his immediate release.
Mr. Khan claimed that Islamabad police “badly beat” Senator Shibli Faraz and Omar Sultan on March 18, where the PTI head attended a Toshakhana case hearing.
Moreover, Mr. Khan said his nephew, Hassaan Niazi, apprehended shortly after bail and charged with “fake FIRs” to keep him in prison.
“I am sending pictures of IGs [inspectors generals] of Punjab and ICT [Islamabad Capital Territory] and of all officers indulging in this criminal behaviour” to international human rights organisations “so they can identify those working for the state and indulging in abductions, illegal break-ins into homes, custodial torture and violence against political leaders and unarmed workers of PTI,” he said.
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Lahore: While, As the Punjab inspector general of police allegedly threatened Mr. Mashwani, PTI leader Fawad Chaudhry declared he had been “abducted.”
He tweeted that Mr. Mashwani should appear in court and explain his crime. “If the IG police thinks he would not even be criticised after torturing and killing party worker Zille Shah, he is living in a fool’s paradise,” Mr. Chaudhry remarked.
Afterward, The PTI also claimed that union council president Malik Qaiser, from Data Ganj Bakhsh town in Lahore, abducted by the police because of preparation for a March 25 PTI protest at Minar-i-Pakistan.
While, “Today is March 23 and we are facing the worst sort of fascism,” a PTI leader tweeted. Another claimed, “The country run by kidnappers and traitors with literally a jungle rule. Banana republic.”
