Crackdown on PTI leaders continues
Pakistan
Police raided the residences of Hammad Azhar, Omar Ayub and Ali Nawaz Awan
LAHORE/ISLAMABAD (Web Desk) – Amid continuing crackdown on party workers, supporters and leadership, the PTI said on Wednesday that residences of many senior leaders including Hammad Azhar, Omar Ayub Khan and Ali Nawaz Awan were raided overnight.
On the PTI Islamabad's Twitter handle, the party asserted that during a raid former federal minister Hammad Azhar’s 82-year-old father was threatened and a warning was given that his daughter would be ‘whisked away’ if his son didn’t surrender to the police.
— PTI Islamabad (@PTIOfficialISB) May 23, 2023
The PTI also claimed that police had conducted a raid at party’s Islamabad region president Ali Nawaz Awan house.
— PTI (@PTIofficial) May 23, 2023
Separately, PTI leader Omar Ayub alleged that the Islamabad Police raided and searched his house without a warrant, abducted his staff and threatened to arrest his son.
“This is the level this imported government is stooping to,” he tweeted.
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— Omar Ayub Khan (@OmarAyubKhan) May 23, 2023
Meanwhile, condemning the re-arrest and ‘custodial torture’ of PTI leaders, workers and supporters, party chief Imran Khan vowed to ‘resist till my last breath’.
— Imran Khan (@ImranKhanPTI) May 23, 2023
“The constitution is being brazenly violated along with SC (Supreme Court) rulings. Police are being used to crush PTI, our leaders forced to quit the party,” he further said in a tweet, adding that “giving into this cruelty means the death of our nation”.
