LAHORE: Embattled PTI chief Imran Khan has alleged that his party’s women activists jailed in different parts of Punjab were being harassed and molested.
He called upon the Supreme Court of Pakistan to take suo motu notice of reports of “rape” of the jailed women workers.
The former prime minister’s allegations came after Interior Minister Rana Sanaullah claimed in a hurriedly called press conference that intelligence agencies had intercepted a call revealing a plot to stage a fake encounter and rape incident by members of the PTI.
The minister claimed that among the plans revealed during the intercepted call was a plot to raid and open fire at a PTI worker’s house, resulting in casualties that could be shown to the world as gross human rights violations.
The second plan was to stage an act of rape, the recording of which would be shared with the global media outlets to propagate the alleged abuse against PTI.
The interior minister did not reveal the characters involved in the intercepted call during his news conference, and neither did the PTI chairman mention the names of the victims of the alleged abuse during his video message.
But Imran said he was convinced of the reports of the kind of treatment being meted out to the party’s women workers in jail.
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