- PAT chief says PIMS doctors did not remove bullets from workers’ bodies
- Claims 2,331 PAT workers arrested, more than 21,000 missing
Pakistan Awami Tehreek (PAT) Chairman Dr Tahirul Qadri Sunday presented before the media his injured workers, which he believed, received metal bullets in clashes with the police when they marched towards Parliament House two weeks ago.
Addressing the protesters atop his container in Islamabad Sunday, the PAT chief claimed that PIMSHospital administration was sold out to Pakistan Muslim League–Nawaz (PML-N) government. He alleged that PIMSHospital chairman was a PML-N worker and his brother was PML-N MNA from Lahore.
Qadri alleged that the doctors at PIMSHospital have been bought by PML-N and they were not extricating the bullets out of PAT workers’ bodies.
Qadri called the injured people on to stage and showed the scars of their bodies. PAT chief claimed that the scars were of real mechanical bullets and the bullets were still inside their bodies.
The government resorted to worse crackdown against the PAT workers in Islamabad than the one in ModelTown on June 17, Qadri claimed.
PAT chief said that 2,331 PAT workers had been arrested so far from various cities of Punjab while the number of missing workers, according to Qadri, has exceeded 21,000. He also claimed that 32 cars belonging to PAT workers have been taken into custody by the police.
