Aitzaz warns govt against employing torture in PTI sit-in

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan People’s Party leader Aitzaz Ahsan on Monday warned the government against employing torture during Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf’s sit-in.

“People Party might change its policy (of staying away from agitation), if demonstrators were tortured or baton charged,” he said while talking to media.

The imminent lawyers said Imran Khan was right in demanding accountability, adding that the National Accountability Bureau (NAB), The Federal Investigation Agency (FIA), The Security Exchange Commission of Pakistan and the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) didn’t play their role in Panama Leaks inquiry.

 “I think accountability must start from prime minister,” he said. Aitzaz Ahsan said the prime minister was running from the accountability while contradictions were also found in the statements of his children with regard to property the ruling family owns abroad.

Imran Khan intends to mount a march on the federal capital on November 2 in an effort to force the government to hold an inquiry into offshore business interests of Pakistanis whose names were revealed in the massive data leaks of a Panamanian Law firm in April this year.

The PTI chairman has demanded the prime minister to quit the office as he has lost what he said moral authority to run the country but the ruling party has accused the former cricket hero of destabilizing democracy, a charge that Imran Khan denies.