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IMRAn KHAn uRgeS CJP TO TAKe SuO MOTu nOTICe, APLOgISeS MRS SWATI On BeHALF OF PAKISTAn ISLAMABAD
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TI’s defiant Senator Azam Swati Saturday burst into tears while telling the media that his family had been sent an obscene video featuring him and his spouse. Swati, who was arrested on October 13 in a case registered against him over a controversial tweet against Army Chief and is now on bail, was subjected to custodial torture and allegedly filmed naked during custody.
I want to apologise on behalf of Pakistan to Mrs Azam Swati: Imran ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Tehreek-eInsaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan has condemned the privacy violation of Senator Azam Swati’s wife, urging Chief Justice of Pakistan (CJP) Umar Ata Bandial to take suo motu notice of the incident. Taking to Twitter, the former prime minister said that Pakistan was created on Islamic moral values of human dignity, honour of the family & inviolability of chadar & chardawari. “What has happened to Azam Swati at the hands of the State has been a blatant violation of all these values – from being stripped naked to custodial torture and now this video where privacy of his wife has been violated.” “It is both shocking, despicable & utterly condemnable. No human being should have to suffer this. I call on the CJP to take suo moto notice of this,” he wrote in a tweet. The PTI chief also apologised on behalf of Pakistan to Mrs Swati over the incident. “I want to apologise on behalf of Pakistan to Mrs Swati, a very private, non-public, tahajud guzaar lady for the pain, anguish and sense of humiliation she is having to suffer,” he wrote. Imran Khan’s statement comes hours after Senator Azam Swati narrated shocking details of what happened to him and his family in a press conference. Swati, while breaking into tears during the presser, alleged that someone from an unknown number sent a private video of him and his wife to his daughter and wife. “My daughter said that her mother had been sent a video clip by someone from an unknown number. and you are in that video,” said the PTI leader while describing the ordeal. staff report
PM demands full SC court to probe Imran’s allegations
LAHORE staff report
Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Saturday appealed to the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court to establish a full court commission to investigate the firing incident aimed at Imran Khan and his long march’s convoy in Wazirabad and the ensuing allegations levelled by the chairman of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI). Addressing a press conference here, Shehbaz said the commission of the Supreme Court should probe the allega-
tions of Imran Khan against him, Interior Minister Rana Sanaullah and a high-ranking army officer. He said, “I will immediately write a letter to the chief justice Supreme Court for the investigation by the full court commission.” The same full court commission should also investigate the murder of [senior journalist] Arshad Sharif and the circumstances surrounding the tragic incident, he added. He assured that the federal government would fully support the commission. Shehbaz Sharif said it was unfortunate that Imran Khan
had falsely alleged that the prime minister, interior minister and an important officer of the institution hatched a conspiracy against him. He said as a prime minister it was his responsibility to play his role when people were misled with repeated lies to take the country to the brink of disaster. PM exPreSSeS CondolenCe over Sher MazarI’S death: Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif Saturday expressed his condolence over the death of Mir Balakh Sher Mazari, a prominent Baloch politician. On his Twitter handle, the prime minister said that Mir Balakh Sher Mazari was a veteran Baloch politician who played a leading role in the country’s politics. “Our national politics is poorer with his death. He belonged to a breed of public servants who believe in values & principles. My heartfelt condolences to his family & friends,” he said while paying tribute to the contributions of late Mazari in politics. Late Mir Balakh Sher was a chief of Mazari tribe and had served as a caretaker prime minister during 1983. He passed away on Friday. He was 94.
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Swati accused elements within the establishment for his ordeal and told media persons that his wife called him from Islamabad at around 9pm last night and kept shouting and crying, adding that he then had to ask his daughter to speak to his wife and inquire what was the matter. On her insistence, he continued, his wife revealed that someone had sent her a video of the couple from an unknown number. “Because the daughters and granddaughters of my country are listening, I cannot say any further,” he added. The senator went on to say that his
daughter, while crying, revealed to him that the video featured his wife as well. “I asked her how is it possible,” the senator said before bursting into tears. He added that his daughter also told him that the video was from when Swati and his wife had visited Quetta where Senate Chairman Sadiq Sanjrani had hosted . Recalling that visit, the senator said Senate Chairperson Sadiq Sanjrani, who respected his wife, had made arrangements for them to stay at the Supreme Court’s judicial lodges in Quetta.
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