Former prime minister’s celebration rejects report as ‘mockery’ after assault at protest march.
Police in Pakistan have filed a report into final week’s assault on former Prime Minister Imran Khan, who was shot and wounded within the leg throughout a protest march. But it surely has been criticised as a “mockery” by his celebration.
The authorities within the japanese province of Punjab, the place the taking pictures occurred, filed what is named a primary data report (FIR) on Monday following orders from the nation’s Supreme Court docket.
The court docket questioned the highest official within the Punjab police on Monday and issued a warning to register an FIR inside 24 hours.
The police report was filed beneath anti-terror legal guidelines and named Naveed Ahmed because the suspected attacker. He was arrested on the web site of the assault on November 3.
Leaders of Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) celebration criticised the police report as a “mockery of justice”.
“It’s a meaningless FIR. It isn’t even well worth the paper it’s written on,” PTI official Asad Umar instructed Al Jazeera.
“We don’t settle for it in its present form and kind and we are going to pursue all avenues to hunt justice,” he added.
Ejaz Chaudhary, one other senior celebration official who was with Khan on the container when the assault occurred, mentioned it was an apt reflection of the state of affairs in Pakistan the place a former prime minister was discovering it tough to get a police case registered.
“The preferred chief of the nation will get attacked in broad daylight and but he can not get a case registered. He has been requesting for days but police have been simply giving lame excuses,” Chaudhary instructed Al Jazeera.
Khan, 70, was main his march on the capital, to demand elections, from Punjab’s Wazirabad metropolis together with a lot of supporters when he was shot at. He recovered in a Lahore hospital for 3 days earlier than being discharged on Sunday.
One particular person was killed within the assault and 13 have been wounded.
On Friday, the previous cricketer-turned-politician named Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, inside minister Rana Sanaullah and a senior army official, Main Normal Faisal Naseer, as the primary accused behind the “plot to assassinate” him. He didn’t present any proof.
The police report doesn’t point out the names of the three folks Khan accused.
Sharif has denied the allegations made towards him and requested the nation’s high court docket to kind a fee to analyze the assault.
The army on Friday known as Khan’s accusations towards its key official “baseless and irresponsible”.
Former minister Shafqat Mahmood, one other PTI chief, tweeted his condemnation of the police report, and wrote it was a “full distortion of legislation”.
“Not registering FIR as per the demand of the complainant is a whole distortion of legislation and unacceptable. By this one act our total authorized framework has been turned the other way up. SC should take discover of this travesty,” he tweeted on Tuesday, referring to the Supreme Court docket.
The lengthy march, which started on October 28 from Lahore, is about to renew on November 10.
Umar, the celebration’s basic secretary, instructed Al Jazeera that whereas they’d deliberate to restart the march on Tuesday, they needed to change dates due to the delay in registering the police report.
“We have been going to go forward on Tuesday and even made [the] announcement. However because of the FIR state of affairs, we needed to change plans and now we’re beginning it from [the] identical spot on Thursday,” he mentioned.
Khan was eliminated as prime minister following a parliamentary vote of no confidence in April.
He has since been holding public rallies and known as for early elections. The time period of the present Nationwide Meeting ends in October 2023.
The coalition authorities has up to now rejected his calls for and has mentioned that the elections will happen as scheduled.