A family member of Inamullah on Tuesday said that the senior PTI leadership falsely’ claimed that a mentally-challenged person, who committed suicide in Peshawar last month, was a party worker and died of police shelling in Swabi on Monday, a local media outfit has reported.
According to details, the PTI leaders claimed that Inamullah was killed by police shelling of ‘expired’ teargas shells being fired on party workers during clashes with the Punjab Police at Swabi and Burhan interchanges on Peshawar-Islamabad motorways.
Shah Mehmood Qureshi and Shuakat Yousafzai told the media that two PTI workers had died of police shelling. PTI regional leader and provincial lawmaker Shah Farman said that two workers had died of police shelling. He upheld that Inamullah, a resident of Tehkal, Peshawar, succumbed to his injuries in a hospital while another was found dead in bushes near Swabi.
However, local media reported that Inamaullah, a resident of Daudzai village of Tehkal Payan, was a schizophrenic patient and had committed suicide.
“Inam had been suffering from a mental illness since 2005 and committed suicide on October 21 at around 10am in the morning,” a family member said.
According to a hospital discharge receipt, the patient was suffering from schizophrenia since 2005 and his last check up was conducted on September 9, and was advised to consult a doctor once in a month.
The family member clarified that neither Inamullah had any affiliation with the PTI nor did he attend the party’s protest in Swabi. “We don’t even know what people are doing in Swabi, and their plan of marching towards Islamabad.”
