Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) chairman Zulfi Bukhari blasted “Western hypocrisy” for remaining silent on “human rights abuses” in the nation as the nation prepares for elections on February 8.
Talking at the Oxford University Majlis, a forum for intellectual discussion at the esteemed university in London, Bukhari criticized Western powers and human rights organizations for their failure to speak out against human rights violations in their own country while ignoring developments in other countries.
While acknowledging that PTI founder Imran Khan-related events have received media attention, Bukhari bemoaned the fact that human rights organizations like Amnesty International have “written very few” articles regarding violations of human rights in Pakistan.
The PTI chairman recalled that Amnesty International covered the just finished general elections in Bangladesh and expressed concern about the lack of an open democracy and the suppression of alternative parties.
“They [the US] intended to impose visa restrictions on Bangladesh because the nation did not conform to the ideals of what a democratic nation ought to be; nevertheless, Pakistan is considered an internal matter.
