LAHORE: Punjab Chief Minister Mohsin Naqvi appointed a two-member committee. It will probe Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) allegations of prison maltreatment of its female activists arrested after the May 9 vandalism.
PTI Chairman Imran Khan urged Chief Justice of Pakistan Umar Ata Bandial to intervene. He requested CJP to address the “molested and harassed” party supporters.
Moreover, CM Naqvi has constituted a committee to investigate the arrests of thousands of PTI workers. Including women, in connection with the May 9 incident.
While, The two-member committee—Deputy Commissioner (DC) Lahore Rafia Haider and SSP Investigation Anoosh Masood—will visit the Kot Lakhpat jail and speak to the convicts.
CM Naqvi had accused the PTI of using prison propaganda to degrade women.
He said 32 ladies were detained and 11 are still in jail. The chief minister stressed that “mothers and sisters remain safe” is his government’s responsibility.
SSP Masood also denied “inappropriate treatment” of female prisoners.
She repeated that a female police team arrests women suspects/accused and holds them in a women’s police station with all female staff.
The SSP said that no male staff member can visit women detainees.
After his detention from the Islamabad High Court on May 9, PTI chief Khan tweeted a montage of how female workers were handled during nationwide protests.
“Never have women been humiliated for using their constitutional right to protest peacefully in any democracy let alone one that is Muslim,” the former prime minister wrote.
He stated this was a plot to depoliticize women in the country.
