While Pakistan Tehreek-E-insaf (PTI) faces a wave of intensification of disqualifications and arrests, the president of the Gohar Ali Khan party was hard on the federal government, accusing it of deepening political repression and to fold the rules of democracy. Addressing the National Assembly, Gohar said that the government’s conduct was "deteriorate with each passing day"Citing the disqualification of PTI leaders, including the opposition chief Omar Ayub, and the arrest of Rehana Dar, 80, as the last of a series of politically motivated actions.
"The injustice that made us attracted a generalized public conviction," He said, stressing that the PTI legislators had chosen to stay in Parliament and not to boycott his procedure. "One by one, our legislators were disqualified," He added, calling the event sequence a "Systematic targeting" Voices of the opposition. Lifting the concerns about the case of Sheikh Waqas Akram, Gohar said that the decision to disqualify had emerged from the Parliament itself. "It is your responsibility to manage this house in accordance with the constitution and the rules," said. On the riots of May 9, Gohar reiterated, "We have all condemned the incident. We asked for the chief judge for a fair trial, the people involved should be punished". However, he argued that the parliamentarians of the PTI had only been charged and were not the subject of trials which violated constitutional standards. "The judiciary treated the PTI as a step-son."
In response, the minister of Law, Azam Nazeer Tarar, defended the legal framework within the framework of which the leaders of the PTI had been sentenced in the affairs of May 9. He stressed that the legal process had followed its course and that the government had no hand in the verdicts.
"Once a case reached the trial phase, it was the courtyard of the court to carry out procedures and make judgments," The minister said. "It is a legal process; Objections can be raised, but the forum to do so is also the court."
Meanwhile, Pti Mna Iqbal Afridi sounded the alarm on the ongoing military operations in the tribal regions, in particular in Tirah, Bajaur and Waziristan, accusing the state of orchestrating what he called one "genocide" tribal people.
"There was a direct shot on civilians in Tirah, killing six people," He said. "Bombings were also made in Bajaur, causing more deaths. This violence also continues in Waziristan."
Afridi also allegedly allegedly allegedly allegedly allegedly allegedly allegedly supported the military operations proposed during the recent meeting of the APEX Committee, which implies that the federal government acted unilaterally. "All this drama concerns access to minerals," He said, claiming that attention to tribal areas was only relaunched after the founder of PTI blocked a mineral bill.
"We are homeless, we suffer, and now we are painted like criminals," said Afridi. "Are you determined to divide us, then you talk about cashmere?"
The Minister of Parliamentary Affairs, Dr. Tariq Fazal Chaudhry, rejected Afridi’s statements, saying that no operation was carried out against a specific group or region. "These are unfounded and damaging to national unity," He said.
