Islamabad: In response to the letter sent by 62 members of the US Congress to President Joe Biden for the release of PTI founder, 160 members of Parliament of Pakistan have written a letter to Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif.
In the letter, reservations have been expressed on the letter of the American Congress members on the baseless political narrative of a particular party.
The letter writers include Tariq Fazl, Naveed Qamar, Mustafa Kamal, Asia Naztanuli, Khalid Magsi and members of all the parties involved in the government coalition. has been expressed.
The MPs have said that as parliamentarians, they consider it their duty to inform the Congress members through the Prime Minister. Pakistan is grappling with democratic challenges which have been further complicated by the politics of extremism. The letter states that the founding PTI introduced political violence, criminal intimidation against state institutions.
The founder of PTI on May 9, 2023, rioted and vandalized on a large scale, incited the crowd to attack the Parliament, the government television building, Radio Pakistan, the chaotic politics paralyzed the country in August 2014 and May 2022 as well.
The letter further states that founder PTI has been inciting chaos and violence in Islamabad and Lahore from jail, founder PTI has used digital terrorism and social media to create chaos, unrest and threaten the state. .
The deviant elements based in America, Britain are playing a role in the negative campaign of founder PTI. The states of America and Britain are forced to take extraordinary measures against their citizens, surveillance of communications under the US Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, under the Military Commission Act 2006. Allows people to be prosecuted.
The views of the Congress members about the general elections of February 2024 are wrong, the elections are internationally recognized as free and fair. Discredit the electoral exercise in which he is not successful.
PTI did the same in 2008 and 2013 elections, founder PTI’s apologetic comments about Taliban, wrong gender ideas, contempt for parliamentary democracy, disrespect for diplomatic principles show its character.
US Congressmen’s support for such a man is surprising as he was found by a Los Angeles court to deny paternity of his daughter. The man is still absconding from the same court, the PTI founder is serving a jail term on proven charges of corruption.
The letter further stated that the Oxford University dropped his candidature due to the PTI founder’s criminal record.