\u201cPlay your role in protecting people of Pakistan from monster of political genocide, annihilation of democracy,\u201d Asad Qaiser writes
\n PESHAWAR
\nFormer National Assembly Speaker Asad Qaiser on Saturday called upon Inter Parliamentary Union (IPU) and other global forums to play a role against alleged political victimisation, assassination attempts and attacks on Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf leader.
\nQaiser penned down letters to IPU and other international forums to inform the world about the \u201csevere violations of human rights\u201d by the incumbent government.
\n\u201cAs a former speaker of the National Assembly, I am compelled to reach out and inform you of the alarmingly violent situation in Pakistan, severe and grave violations of human rights including, abduction, assassination attempts, custodial torture, enforced disappearances, inhuman treatment and murder or eminent journalists and the PTI political workers, leaders, former and current Members of Parliament, including [the] former prime minister of Pakistan Imran Ahmed Niazi by the present PDM government in Pakistan in connivance with the law enforcement agencies,\u201d he wrote.
\nIn the letter, Asad Qaiser noted that after heavy political horse trading in \u201cpeculiar\u201d political circumstances, the party resigned from the Parliament to get a fresh mandate from the people of Pakistan.
\nHe claimed that despite being in an \u2018oppressed opposition\u2019, the PTI have won 30 out of 37 by-elections with more than a 50 percent margin against twelve political parties.
\n\u201cThe current government in collaboration with two caretaker governments in Punjab and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa provinces, have committed such heinous crimes to suppress political dissent by the PTI and have adopted such ignominious methods, that the basic tenets of decency, humanity and all international covenants on human rights are hanging by a tether,\u201d he wrote.
\nHe further said that the \u2018fake criminal complaint\u2019 was filed against Imran Khan to force his way out of politics. \u201cThis was followed by a coordinated assassination attempt on the life of Khan, wherein he sustained multiple bullet wounds and fractures along with 11 others that were injured and one passerby murdered,\u201d he added.
\n\u201cTill date, he has not been allowed to exercise his constitutionally mandated right to induct the suspects involved and file a case against the accused persons in the attempted assassination of a former prime minister,\u201d he mentioned.
\nThe letter noted that as of today, 127 \u201cfake and baseless\u201d cases have been filed against the PTI chief; Khan\u2019s residence and family has been attacked more than once and arrested without cause; PTI chief\u2019s supporters are harassed and beaten daily on one pretext or another; Famous investigative journalist Arshad Sharif was murdered during an investigation into \u201cofficial corruption\u201d by those in power.
\nQaiser alleged that the superior judiciary of Pakistan was under severe attack by the PDM government, which has released a series of \u201cfake audio\/videos\u201d in an attempt to blackmail them.
\n\u201cThe incumbent Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has gone so far as to the party workers\u2019 militants for resisting violence and his niece, Maryam Nawaz, a party leader has made genocidal statements about the ethnicity of mainstream political workers,\u201d he added.
\nThe former NA speaker urged the global forums to take urgent notice of the situation and \u201cplay your role in protecting the people of Pakistan from the monster of political genocide, the annihilation of democracy and mayhem\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
\u201cPlay your role in protecting people of Pakistan from monster of political genocide, annihilation of democracy,\u201d Asad Qaiser writes PESHAWAR Former National Assembly Speaker Asad Qaiser on Saturday called upon Inter Parliamentary Union (IPU) and other global forums to play a role against alleged political victimisation, assassination attempts and attacks on Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf leader. Qaiser […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-321758","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-top-news"},"yoast_head":"\n