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'Draw line somewhere': Imran urges judiciary to protect fundamental rights
Ex-PM alleged that PTI's social media workers were being taken into custody and subjected to torture
News Desk
February 25, 2023
Former prime minister and Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan on Saturday urged the judiciary to protect the fundamental rights of party members and citizens of Pakistan, asking the Chief Justice of Pakistan, Umar Ata Bandial to "draw a line" somewhere.
"People should have confidence that judiciary will protect them... what
namaloom afraad (unidentified persons) and dirty Harry are doing is in front of everyone to see," he said during a press conference flanked by PTI leader Usman Dar and a watchman in education department named Javed Ali.
Javed, during the presser, narrated how he was picked up by some ‘unidentified people’ and was tortured after being taken to an unknown locality blindfolded.
"People came and picked me up and took me to some unknown place. They blindfolded me. They asked me how much money Usman Dar got from you. They had hanged me upside down," he said.
He said that the unknown people stripped him naked and asked him to confess that Usman Dar had taken money from him, saying that they had involved his wife and children too.