Info minister says four people were killed and PTI’s youth ‘mistreated’ one female party activist, a female journalist during PTI’s Lahore lockdown
Information Minister Pervaiz Rashid has criticised the behaviour of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) workers, adding that PTI Chairman Imran Khan’s “tigers” are “wolves” for the common Pakistanis, especially women.
“The PTI chief is training Pakistani youth to become wolves. They have no respect for any one. They made a PTI woman activist and a female journalist cry in Lahore today,” said Rashid while addressing a press conference on Monday when PTI shut down the city as part of its Plan C.
Four people were killed due to PTI’s Lahore lockdown, alleged the minister. Accusing the PTI chief of “walking on bodies of Pakistanis”, Rashid said that Khan is so “power hungry” that he did not even stop his speech while his workers died in Multan. He also mentioned the death of a PTI worker while burning tyres in Faisalabad.
“The PTI chief is surrounded by representatives of Pakistan’s richest class. Khan’s allies are running their business in this country and paying their taxes while Khan is telling the poor masses to stop paying their electricity bills and shut their businesses down,” said Rashid.
“The public has refused to support PTI’s selfish call for protest,” he added.
While answering a question about the proposed judicial commission to probe alleged rigging in 2013 General Elections, Rashid said Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif wrote a letter to the Supreme Court of Pakistan on August 13 in this regard.
Therefore, he said, there is no need for Khan to protest after that, adding that the PTI chief is himself the “greatest hurdle in the way of the judicial commission”.
