LAHORE
\nPakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan has lambasted Interior Minister Rana Sanaullah for trying to terrorise the nation by revealing a sham plot against women to \u201ccover up horror stories about to break in the media.\u201d
\nIn his tweet on Sunday, the former prime minister uploaded a clip from the press conference of Sanaullah in which he talked about intercepting a phone call. The conversation was about an alleged plot to stage rape and blame law enforcement officials for the heinous crime to get global backing for human rights violation.
\nHe is so obviously trying to cover up and preempt the horror stories about to break in the media. Imran further wrote in his tweet that \u201cif there were any doubts about women being mistreated in jails, this press conference from this certified criminal should removed all such doubts. He is so obviously trying to cover up and preempt the horror stories about to break in the media\u201d.
\n\u201cIf there were any doubts about women being mistreated in jails, this press conference from this certified criminal should remove all such doubts,\u201d he tweeted. \u201cWomen have never been so mistreated and harassed by the state as they have been by this fascist govt when they were exercising their right to protest peacefully,\u201d the PTI chief further said in his tweet.
\nIt may be recalled that the law enforcers\u2019 \u201cgross misbehavior\u201d with the women family members of PTI leaders has been reported by the media. In one instance, the police raided the house of Usman Dar and mistreated his mother. Police also beat up and dragged women protesters on several occasions.
\nInterior Minister Rana Sanaullah Khan claimed in a press conference at around midnight on Saturday night that the PTI plotted to highlight human rights violations in Pakistan at the global scale by staging a simulated raid at a party worker\u2019s house, involving a rape and casualties caused by gunfire.
\nThe minister said that intelligence agencies intercepted a call in which a conspiracy was being hatched to kill some PTI worker during a staged raid. The second part of the plot was to commit a rape, he said and added that the plan was to be implemented tonight. He said the people involved in the conversation were being monitored.
\nThe minister argued that the purpose of his \u201cmidnight televised address is to promptly alert the nation about the malicious intentions of the plotters.\u201d Sanaullah reiterated government\u2019s resolve to bring those responsible for the events on May 9 to justice.
\nMeanwhile, Imran also condemned raids on the houses of PTI leaders Omar Ayub and Shahzad Akbar late on Saturday night. There were raids at night on Omar Ayub and Shahzad Akbar\u2019s (he\u2019s not even in the country) houses.
\nToday we are living in dark ages.. Constitution violated, court decisions openly flouted, houses broken in without warrant and smashed, media muzzled and no one to protect our\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
LAHORE Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan has lambasted Interior Minister Rana Sanaullah for trying to terrorise the nation by revealing a sham plot against women to \u201ccover up horror stories about to break in the media.\u201d In his tweet on Sunday, the former prime minister uploaded a clip from the press conference of Sanaullah […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":331822,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[65],"class_list":{"0":"post-333952","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-top-news","8":"tag-imran"},"yoast_head":"\n