Imran Jan points to the secret services for torture of opposition leaders

Oct. 29 (EUROPA PRESS) –

The Pakistani opposition leader and former Prime Minister Imran Jan has reproached the Pakistan military secret service (ISI) for the torture suffered by the senator of the Pakistan Tehrik and Insaf (PTI) party, Azam Swati, and other leaders during an act in which he is already the second day of his “long march” against the current Government of Pakistan.

“Since these savages arrived in Islamabad they have repressed the people and the media and threatened them,” Jan said, referring to the ISI leadership, according to the Pakistani daily ‘Dawn’.

“First they went for Shahbaz Gill, they stripped him naked, tortured him, and then they went for Yamil Faruqui,” said Jan, who has also criticized the ISI for questioning his “apolitical press conference.” “You don’t just attack Imran Jan if you criticize him for an apolitical press conference,” he argued.

Jan was deposed in a motion of censure last April for what he considers an international conspiracy at the service of his great political enemy, also former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif.

The Electoral Commission of Pakistan (ECP) has also opened the door to Jan’s criminal prosecution for not disclosing the details of the gifts he received during his time in power from foreign governments, despite the existence of a specific institution responsible for channeling these deliveries.

Jan reacted to the measure by indicating that the ECP had disqualified him in a totally illegal and unconstitutional manner and has called a “long march” on Islamabad, a traditional political tool in Pakistan for which the opposition forces a change of government through massive mobilizations that converge in the capital.