Mansehra: Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Chief Minister Ali Amin Gandapur on Thursday urged the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) leadership to give priority to the early completion of the lists of missing and dead party workers.
“Our priority should be to finalize the lists of party workers who were killed, arrested, or detained after law enforcement agencies cracked down on our peaceful sit-in in the federal capital,” he told a meeting of party leaders here. are still missing.” . Opposition leader in the National Assembly Umar Ayub Khan, member of the National Assembly Prince Gastakh Khan, former provincial minister Shaukat Yousafzai, PTI provincial vice president Kamal Saleem Swati and others also participated in the meeting.
The participants discussed the situation following the crackdown on the PTI sit-in at Islamabad’s D Chowk earlier this week. Gandapur said that the details of missing, killed and arrested party workers and officials are being finalized soon.
He said that once these lists are completed, we will start distributing compensation of Rs 10 million to the kin of the deceased and legal proceedings will be initiated for the release of the arrested party workers and officials.
He further directed the PTI legal team to prepare the necessary formalities to file a first information report against the law enforcement agencies for allegedly directly targeting peaceful activists and party leaders during the crackdown. was assigned the task of
The chief minister, who had earlier announced that the ongoing protest would continue till the release of the founding chairman of the party but called it off, assured the audience that party workers would not be abandoned at this critical time. “Our party workers are an asset who are standing firm against unprecedented persecution to secure the freedom of their leader Imran Khan. We will never leave them alone in this difficult time,” he reiterated.
Meanwhile, Shaukat Yousafzai told reporters that the federal government should have refrained from blaming the bloodshed. He said that the government has set a dangerous precedent by firing on peaceful protesters. He added that a large number of party workers have either been killed or arrested and tracing their whereabouts is now the top priority of the party.
Shaukat Yousafzai admitted that during the ongoing dharna there was some setback due to internal problems in the party. He said that expressing such concerns within the party is part of the democratic process.
PTI MNA Prince Gastakh Khan, who defeated Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) chief Nawaz Sharif in the NA-15 general elections on February 8, said former first lady Bushra Bibi had stayed in Mansehra. Did not attend any meeting or program during.