He has directed the Karachi Corps Commander to “immediately inquire into the circumstances to determine the facts and report back as soon as possible”, in keeping with the assertion issued by the Inter-Companies Public Relations (ISPR).
Whereas the ISPR didn’t specify which incident it was referring to, the assertion comes minutes after PPP Chairperson Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari referred to as on “institutions” to analyze the circumstances surrounding the arrest of PML-N chief retired Capt Mohammad Safdar in Karachi a day earlier.
Safdar and his spouse, PML-N Vice President Maryam Nawaz, had been within the metropolis to attend a rally of the opposition’s Pakistan Democratic Motion (PDM) when he was arrested from their lodge early on Monday morning. He was subsequently launched on bail.
Addressing a press convention in Karachi, Bilawal stated all high officers of Sindh Police had been questioning “who were the people who surrounded” the Sindh police chief’s home within the early hours of Monday and took him to an unspecified location earlier than Safdar was arrested.
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He additionally demanded to know the identities of “the two people who went inside the IG’s house” and the place they allegedly took the police chief at round 4am.
Following Safdar’s arrest, a purported voice message by PML-N chief and former Sindh governor Muhammad Zubair was shared by a journalist during which Zubair alleged that the inspector normal of police was kidnapped and compelled to register the primary info report towards Maryam, her husband Safdar and 200 others for violating the sanctity of Quaid-i-Azam Mohammad Ali Jinnah’s mausoleum.
Within the audio clip circulating on Twitter, Zubair purportedly stated that Chief Minister Murad Ali Shah confirmed to him that police was pressured into making the arrest. “When they (police) refused to do that, Rangers kidnapped [the IGP],” Zubair stated.
Maryam had additionally alleged that the Sindh police chief was forcibly “taken to the sector commander’s office and asked to sign on the arrest orders”. She claimed that when the IGP confirmed reluctance, he was advised that the arrest could be carried out by the Rangers. “After his signatures were forcibly taken on the arrest orders, he was told police would carry out the arrest.”
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The allegation was denied by Maritime Affairs Minister Ali Zaidi as “nonsense narrative”.
Terming the style during which Safdar was arrested as “shameful”, Bilawal stated he couldn’t condemn it sufficient.
“I am ashamed [and] unable to show my face over what has taken place in my province,” he added.
He stated there was a furore over the political slogans raised by Safdar on the Quaid’s mausoleum, however requested why no motion was taken when PTI employees “did similar sloganeering” throughout Imran Khan’s go to to the tomb and when “banned outfits” raised their very own slogans there.
Military chief orders instant inquiry into ‘Karachi incident’: ISPR
