Former prime minister’s social gathering rejects report as ‘mockery’ after assault throughout a protest march final week.
Islamabad, Pakistan – 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 social gathering.
The authorities within the japanese province of Punjab, the place the capturing befell, filed what is named a primary data report (FIR) on Monday following orders from the nation’s Supreme Courtroom.
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 below 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) social gathering criticised the police report as a “mockery of justice”.
“It's a meaningless FIR. It's not even well worth the paper it’s written on,” PTI official Asad Umar advised Al Jazeera.
“We don't settle for it in its present form and type and we are going to pursue all avenues to hunt justice,” he added.
Ejaz Chaudhary, one other senior social gathering official who was with Khan on the container when the assault befell, stated it was an apt reflection of the state of affairs in Pakistan the place a former prime minister was discovering it troublesome 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 advised 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 in opposition to him and requested the nation’s high court docket to type a fee to research the assault.
The army on Friday referred to as Khan’s accusations in opposition to 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 an entire 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 Courtroom.
The lengthy march, which started on October 28 from Lahore, is ready to resume on November 10.
Umar, the social gathering’s common secretary, advised 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 scenario, we needed to change plans and now we're beginning it from [the] similar spot on Thursday,” he stated.
Khan was eliminated as prime minister following a parliamentary vote of no confidence in April.
He has since been holding public rallies and referred to as for early elections. The time period of the present Nationwide Meeting ends in October 2023.
The coalition authorities has to this point rejected his calls for and has stated that the elections will happen as scheduled.
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