Yesterday July 22, 2024. Security forces have the offices of the Pakistan Tehreek e-Insaf (PTI) party in Islamabad, which took important documents and computer LCDs.
The raid on Monday came a week after the government said it planned to disband the party, Pakistan’s largest opposition and record-taking votes party.
A police contingent sealed off the offices in Islamabad. Acting party Chairman Gohar Khan and Information Secretary Rauf Hasan were detained. Later, PTI acting party chairman Gohar Khan was released and Hasan Rauf remained in custody.
After the verdict of the Supreme Court on July 12 ruled that the PTI, which won the most seats in February’s general election but was kept from the government by an alliance of military-backed rival parties, should be awarded 23 additional seats in parliament. The judgement deprives Sharif’s coalition of the two-thirds majority needed to push through planned reforms.
Since the Supreme Court verdict, several PTI’s social media activists were kidnapped from the scene.PTI’s second-tier leadership accuses the establishment and government of the kidnapping of their social media activists.
Last week Information Minister Atta Tarar announced that the government is filing a petition banning PTI as a party. He also accused that including the incitement of violent protests last year the leaking of classified information and filing treason charges against Imran Khan.
