ISLAMABAD: Federal Minister for Information Attaullah Tarar on Wednesday said that the people had rejected the ‘Politics of lies, hypocrisy & violence’ pursued by the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI).
Talking to media here, he said the narrative of the PTI had failed miserably and its leaders had to run to avoid arrest.
He strongly rejected the PTI’s claims of killing of their activists in cross firing from the law enforcement agencies, terming it ‘Totally baseless propaganda’.
He said the PTI concocted fake story of workers’ death after its workers had martyred personnel of the Rangers in a hit and run incident and also martyred the police personnel.
He said Chief Minister of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Ali Amin Gandapur was accompanied by the provincial police personnel in plain clothes who were armed with modern weapons including guns and teargas shells.
He remarked that the rioters were using slingshot and sharp stones to harm the police and law enforcement agencies.
He said since morning the PTI had started propaganda about killing of party workers. The management of Polyclinic Hospital had issued a statement denying claims of dead bodies shifted there.
He said that PTI was the only political party which always made bogus claims of killing of its workers. He said last night he personally visited the area from D-Chowk to 7th Avenue but saw nothing which could prove PTI claims of firing on its workers.
He remarked that the PTI leadership had run away from the scene to escape arrest and now they were creating narrative of killings of protestors.
He said if the PTI had proofs of killing of their workers, then they should present post mortem reports and other evidences.
He said 37 Afghan nationals and dozens of criminals involved in terrorism, theft and robberies were arrested from the PTI protest scene.
He said contrary to its claims of playing victim card, the violent PTI workers killed four Rangers and two police personnel and 150 cops were injured.
He said that 45 guns and grenades were recovered from the miscreants belonging to the PTI.
Castigating Bushra Bibi, he said she wanted dead bodies to get political advantage while Ali Amin Gandapur escaped to avoid the arrest.
He said the PTI had the habit of concocting stories and it claimed that Rangers were killed by law enforcement agencies, but CCTV footage proved them wrong and now the culprits had been arrested from Abbottabad.
He said senior leaders of the PTI Atif Khan, Shehrsm Tarakai, Asad Qaiser, Salman Akram Raja, Hamad Azhar and Waqas Akram stayed away from entire protest.
