Terms Imran’s rights abuse ‘rhetoric manipulative’; Accuses IK of deceiving foreign audiences
Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Monday said that the May 9 incident was a “brazen attack on the State of Pakistan” with “sinister objectives as he continued to lash out at the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf.
Shehbaz Sharif took to Twitter to clarify that “the culprits [of May 9] are being dealt with under the law” and assured that he will ensure “no rights violations take place”.
The prime minister accused the PTI chief and his party of attempting to destroy the country’s “integrity” and resorting to acts that “no country in the world would tolerate”.
Shehbaz vowed that “Pakistan fully respects
and is committed to all its constitutional and international obligations on human rights”.
He also dismissed claims of human rights abuses and restrictions on the right to political protest with regard to May 9 and the events that have followed. Such rhetoric, according to the prime minister, is “aimed at manipulating and swaying opinion-makers outside the country”. Shehbaz insisted that every case associated with May 9 “will be dealt with due process under the law”.
The premier, taking to his official Twitter handle, expressed his commitment to uphold the law and safeguard against any infringement of rights.
Violent protests erupted in Pakistan on May 9 with dozens injured across several cities and demonstrators attacking military buildings after former prime minister Imran Khan was arrested.
The police launched a crackdown against all those allegedly involved in the violence, vowing to hold each and everybody accountable. However, PTI is holding demonstrations overseas and claiming in international media that human rights violations are taking place in Pakistan.
He said the PTI chief in his interviews with international media outlets is openly and deliberately disinforming local and foreign audiences by “glib-talk laced with fake news and plain misrepresentation”.
“His expedient description of the post-May 9 events as ‘human rights abuses’ and ‘stifling of the right to political protest’ is not only misleading but aimed at manipulating and swaying opinion-makers outside the country,” PM Shehbaz wrote.
