For the second time, Sheikh Rashid claims that ‘forces’ have invaded his home in Islamabad.
His staff, he claims, were physically threatened by guys in “plain clothes” who forced them to make statements.
Sheikh Rashid Ahmad, leader of the Awami Muslim League (AML), claimed on Sunday that elite forces broke into his home at midnight, beat up his house staff, and coerced them into giving testimonies.
Rashid said last week that paramilitary force members and the Islamabad Police stormed into his home in the early hours of Wednesday morning while he was out of the country.
Rashid tweeted hours later, “I was not present in the house,” despite earlier claims that an 80-90-person raid party had forced their way into his home.
The AML head released a video statement today detailing yet another occurrence of this nature. He said that “at midnight, the elite forces broke into my Islamabad residence” and “tortured” his employees into denying any physical abuse.
The “police is doing all this because of the June 9 notice issued by Additional Sessions Judge Tahir Abbas Supra,” he said.
At 4 o’clock in the morning, he stated, “forces dressed in white clothes indiscriminately tortured the house help at my mother’s residence, the Lal Haveli,” adding, “it was the neighbors who intervened and saved them from the officials in plain clothes.”
He added that the people of the country are “disgraced and humiliated” and that “the law of the jungle” is in effect.
And, he continued, “the tides of time will turn,” meaning that he may legally pursue legal action.
It’s worth noting that the ex-minister of the interior had already made an emotional appeal to Pakistan’s current CJP, Umar Ata Bandial, for fair treatment.
Last week, the PTI chairman’s close aide released a video message to Twitter claiming that three individuals had been hired to kill the PTI chairman.
Rashid had insisted once again that he was innocent in the Al-Qadir Trust issue and had never worked with Shahzad Akbar, the former assistant to the prime minister on accountability. The ex-minister promised to testify before the anti-graft watchdog if he discovered any relevant material.
In light of the seeming “stooping low” of the state and politics, Rashid had wondered how the average citizen could make it in this country. After saying that “after the Almighty only the Supreme Court and the CJP were now the nation’s hope,” he pleaded with CJP Bandial for justice.
