In an uncommon transfer, ousted prime minister Imran Khan-led opposition Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) get together on Wednesday sought the UN’s assist to carry an “independent and impartial” investigation into what it referred to as the “state excesses and human rights violations” by the federal government throughout a protest final week.
Khan’s supporters violently protested on May 25 in Islamabad to drive the federal government to announce early elections and police needed to resort to teargas and baton-charge to maintain them beneath management.
Shireen Mazari, a senior PTI chief and human rights minister in Khan’s authorities, in a letter to UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet alleged that the federal government used drive in opposition to protesters and in addition launched “politically motivated” instances in opposition to get together management.
She demanded an “independent and impartial investigation into these state excesses and human rights violations”.
Mazari additionally requested the UN official to “take urgent notice of the issues raised as they not only threatened democracy in Pakistan but also the lives of former prime minister Khan, his party leadershipand intervene on these with the government of Pakistan”.
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She accused the federal government of committing “state excesses” in opposition to the PTI staff throughout the crackdown. She sought the UN intervention to finish “harassment of the PTI” members and save them from “political” cases against them.
Mazari also demanded that the government stop censorship of the media which she said was a “violation of basic democratic norms and of the ICCPR to which Pakistan is a party”.
It urged the UN to stop the government of Pakistan from “denying the right to peaceful protest through repressive measures”.
Mazari’s letter came a day after Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif formed a committee to investigate if the PTI protesters were armed during the protest.
Earlier, former prime minister Khan said in an interview that he called off the protest as some protestors carried guns and he feared clashes and violence.
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Defence Minister Khawaja Asif has claimed that protesters in the “Azadi March” have been carrying not solely weapons but in addition computerized weapons on the orders of Khan.
Khan led his 1000’s of supporters of his Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf get together to Islamabad final week in a protest and had deliberate to stage a sit-in till new elections have been introduced however abruptly referred to as off the sit-in on the final minute after making it to the capital.
However, he had threatened to return after six days if the federal government failed to offer a date for snap polls within the nation.
Khan, who was ousted from energy in April by means of a no-trust vote, has been claiming that the no-trust movement in opposition to him was the results of a “foreign conspiracy” as a result of his unbiased overseas coverage and funds have been being channelled from overseas to oust him from energy. He has named the US because the nation behind the conspiracy, a cost denied by Washington.
