Pakistani opposition leader and former Prime Minister Imran Jan has blamed Pakistan’s military secret service (ISI) for the torture suffered by Pakistan Tehrik e Insaf (PTI) senator Azam Swati and other leaders during a rally in what is already the second day of his «long march» against the current Pakistani government.
«Ever since these savages came to Islamabad they have been suppressing the people and the media and threatening them,» Jan said, referring to the ISI leadership, according to Pakistani daily ‘Dawn’.
«First they went after Shahbaz Gill, stripped him naked, tortured him, and then they went after Yamil Faruqui,» stressed Jan, who also criticized the ISI for questioning his «apolitical press conference». «You are not only attacking Imran Jan if you criticize him for an apolitical press conference,» he argued.
Jan was deposed in a no-confidence motion last April by what he considers an international conspiracy in the service of his great political enemy, also former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif.
The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) has also opened the door to the criminal prosecution of Jan for not disclosing the details of the gifts he received during his time in power from foreign governments, despite the existence of a specific institution responsible for channeling these deliveries.
Jan reacted to the measure indicating that the ECP had disqualified him in a totally illegal and unconstitutional way and has called for a «long march» on Islamabad, a political tool already traditional in Pakistan by which the opposition forces a change of government through massive mobilizations that converge in the capital.
