PESHAWAR: Former speaker of the National Assembly and senior leader of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Asad Qaiser said on Wednesday that Islamabad has been turned into a no-go area for Pakhtoons.
Talking to the media outside the Peshawar High Court (PHC), the PTI MNA said that Punjab and Islamabad police are arresting citizens of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa based on their ethnicity. “Pakhtoon are being arrested in Punjab and Islamabad based on their NICs,” he said.
He said that it is a conspiracy against the federation and Pakistan.
He said that it was their constitutional right to hold public gatherings, but the government used state force against peaceful protesters on November 26. He said that what option was left for PTI if it did not do a protest. The federal government neither released funds for Khyber Pakhtunkhwa nor accepted its constitutional position.
“What happened on that day was unprecedented. The whole world watched the scenes of bloodshed, and it became crystal clear that there was martial law in the country.”
He said that PTI has always respected the law of the land, but if the government is under the impression that it could do whatever it wanted to do to the party, then it is a huge mistake.
“We are standing with our leader, former prime minister and PTI founder Imran Khan, as firm as a rock,” he said.
He said that the PTI was the country’s most popular political party that bound people of different ethnicities together.
He warned that PTI would go to any extent to expose this brutality at all international forums.
Asad Qaiser said that Imran Khan and thousands of other party workers had been kept in jail without any legal justification. “I want to tell the government officials that they should not cross their limits. PTI has not yet done with its protest. The release of the party workers is our topmost priority.”
He urged the political parties in the opposition to raise their voices against the government’s fascist actions.
Earlier, the Peshawar High Court granted protective bail to Asad Qaiser, Shahram Khan Tarakai, Raja Basharat, and other PTI leaders until December 24.
