Web Desk (LTN NEWS): Attaullah Tarar, a leader of the PML-N, said that the Supreme Court should take notice on its own that Punjab Home Minister Hashim Dogar moved a jail superintendent “just because of one prisoner.”
On Tuesday, the provincial government moved Rawalpindi jail superintendent Chaudhry Asghar Ali. This happened after Dogar tweeted that he had “recommended,” the jail officials be fired for putting Shahbaz Gill in a special cell (called a “chakki”) on his first night in jail. “No prisoner is getting this kind of treatment. I told the right people that the DIG and Jail Superintendent should be removed from their jobs,” he said.
Tarar told the media in Islamabad that a man who said “seditious things about the armed forces” was being treated in a legal way.
He criticized the Punjab government, which is run by the PTI and the PML-Q, for moving jail staff. “After a little harshness, PTI leaders are now making a lot of noise.”
Tarar asked the leaders of the PTI to say that Gill’s comments were wrong. “The party should have told everyone on the first day that Gill is no longer chief of staff because he broke party rules, but the PTI didn’t do that.”
He asked if Punjab Chief Minister Parvez Elahi had told Imran that his party should stay away from Gill’s comments.
Asad Umar Remarks
Asad Umar, a former planning minister, and leader of the PTI said that people were trying to get Gill arrested and bring him back to Islamabad so that police could force him to lie about Imran Khan.
Umar told the media in Rawalpindi that the government was trying to get Gill to say something bad about Imran, but that Gill had not done so yet.
He said that the provincial home minister made a decision based on his observation because “he may have thought that the performance of certain officials is not up to the mark.”
Umar also said that investigators tried to give the court a “fake medical report” to make it seem like “everything is fine.”
