ISLAMABAD: The PTI core committee on Tuesday expressed apprehensions over The Intercept report alleging Pakistan’s involvement in the Russia-Ukraine conflict in lieu of securing the IMF deal, and demanded a judicial commission for a thorough fact-check of the news story along with the one previously published containing alleged text of the ‘cipher’.
The core committee in its meeting termed the content of the latest news report alarming’, a day after Pakistan’s foreign office rejected it as ‘baseless’ and ‘fabricated’.
The PTI leaders said that after publishing the alleged text of the ‘cipher’, the latest news report warranted immediate attention of the judiciary.
According to a statement, the committee noted that PTI Chairman Imran Khan’s assumptions about the regime change conspiracy and its motives appeared to be true, as Pakistan’s economy, politics, governance, state structure and society had only declined since April 2022, exposing competence of the decision-makers.
Blome-IGP meeting slammed
Meanwhile, PTI Secretary General Omar Ayub Khan criticised a meeting of US Ambassador Donald Blome with Punjab IGP Dr Usman Anwar.
Mr Khan said, “Each one of the Punjab policemen and policewomen who sat across the table from you [the US envoy] in the meeting has a long rap sheet of human rights abuses that I am sure the folks on Capitol Hill would be absolutely delighted to read and commend you and your team for reaching out to meet.”
He asked the IGP if he talked about the alleged enforced disappearances and torture of PTI activists.
Published in Dawn, September 20th, 2023
