ISLAMABAD On Friday, Senate Leader of the Opposition Shibli Faraz chastised the government for detaining Aamir Mughal, the leader of the Pakistan Tehreek e Insaf (PTI) local chapter, and for employing force against the party.
Speaking to the Senate today, Faraz claimed that in addition to banning his party, the Treasury benches had employed every trick in the book to undermine it. He scolded them for not thinking that stealing the party’s election symbol would suffice.
Regarding the raid that occurred at the PTI office yesterday night, the senior leader said that Mughal was taken into custody, PTI workers were attacked by police using batons, and his party’s central office was destroyed in Islamabad.
The PTI, which was founded by Imran Khan, strongly condemned the Capital Development Authority’s (CDA) demolition of a portion of the PTI Central Secretariat in the federal capital on Thursday night due to a “violation of building rules.”
The CDA said in a statement that an operation to remove encroachment and unlawful construction was started late on Thursday.
It went on to state that the plot had been assigned in the name of a person called Sartaj Ali and that interference by a “political party” was being eliminated.
According to the CDA, the plot’s construction of an extra floor was done against the building codes. The government authority continued by saying that notices had been sent to the party, but to no effect.
