Jan calls on Pakistan’s president to “act” to stop “abuse of power” and investigate his assassination attempt

He again denounces a “plot to assassinate him” in which the current prime minister, Shehbaz Sharif, would be involved

Nov. 7 (EUROPA PRESS) –

Former Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Jan has called on the country’s president, Arif Alvi, to “act now” to stop the “abuse of power” and has denounced “a plot to assassinate him” allegedly hatched by the prime minister, Shehbaz Sharif, days after surviving a shooting.

Jan has indicated in a letter to the president that since he was removed from power in a motion of censure in April “the nation has begun to rise up” before his call for nationwide demonstrations to demand early elections.

“The Minister of the Interior (Rana Sanaulá) has repeatedly issued death threats against me and I was informed of a plot to assassinate me that would have been prepared by the Prime Minister, the Minister of the Interior and the head of the Intelligence services,” has said.

Thus, he has asked Alvi to “take note of a series of errors that undermine Pakistan’s national security” and “order an investigation under his leadership to identify the culprits and hold them accountable,” according to the Pakistani newspaper ‘ The Tribune’.

Jan has thus denounced “a violation of the Official Secrets Act” after the “leakage” of a conversation he had with Sharif and senior Army officials and a “direct threat of regime change” by a US officer.

In this sense, he has argued that the National Security Council held a meeting on this matter when he was prime minister and “clearly decided that it was an unacceptable interference in internal affairs, after which it was decided that a complaint be filed by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to the American envoy in Islamabad”.

However, he regretted that a press conference was held on October 27 in which he assured that the aforementioned message from Washington did not imply interference and wondered how one can “publicly contradict a decision of the National Security Council”.

For this reason, he has argued that “The parameters of a military information organization such as the Intelligence services must be clearly defined and limited to information related to defense and military affairs” and has called on Alvi to “draw a clear operational line” for this organism.

The former prime minister has also asked the Pakistani president to “protect democracy and the constitution” and has emphasized that “no person or institution can be above the law”, before pointing to “massive abuses of citizens against hands of rogue elements in state organizations, including torture and kidnapping”.

“You represent the highest position in the State and I ask you to act now to stop the abuse of power and the violations of our laws and the Constitution, which guarantee the fundamental rights of all citizens”, Jan riveted in his letter to Alvi .

SUPREME DECISION

On the other hand, the Supreme Court has ordered this Monday the inspector general of the Police of the Punjab region, Faisal Shahkar, to register an initial report on the assassination attempt against Jan and Wazirabad, which resulted in one death and seven injuries. , including several senior officials of the Pakistan Tehrik-e-Insaf (PTI) party, including the former prime minister, according to the Pakistani television network Geo TV.

In response, Fauad Chaudhri, a senior PTI official, has indicated on his official Twitter account that the court’s decision is “the first step towards justice” after the assassination attempt. The person responsible for the shooting is in custody.

Jan himself announced on Sunday that the “long march” to the capital, Islamabad, will resume on Tuesday from the same point where he was shot on Thursday, in the midst of his pulse with Sharif for the call for early elections.

Jan accused the government and an army general of being involved in the assassination attempt. The Prime Minister, Shehbaz Sharif, has requested this Saturday the creation of a judicial commission of investigation.

The former prime minister, who became the first Pakistani president to be removed in April in a no-confidence motion, was disqualified at the end of October by the electoral commission for failing to declare money from the sale of gifts and gifts received by of international leaders when he was at the head of the Government.

His departure from office was followed by growing political tension marked by turncoat scandals and massive protests for and against the prime minister, denounced by the opposition alliance of the Pakistan Democratic Movement (MDP) as a “puppet” of the Army. The Armed Forces are considered the most powerful establishment in Pakistan since its independence from the British Raj in 1947.