PESHAWAR: Former provincial minister and Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) chief Shaukat Yousafzai has strongly criticised the get together’s management over its dealing with of the current protest in Islamabad.
Reflecting on the aftermath and the therapy of get together employees, Yousafzai, whereas talking throughout Geo Information’ programme “Aaj Shahzeb Khanzada Kay Saath”, accused the management of neglecting its tasks and making poor selections that failed to guard its supporters.
In a pointy critique, he highlighted the management’s absence throughout essential moments. “Whole households have been ruined; management didn’t come ahead then, and nonetheless isn’t coming ahead,” he stated.
He identified that whereas Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Chief Minister Ali Amin Gandapur and Bushra Bibi, PTI founder Imran Khan’s spouse, led employees to the protest web site, the remainder of the management remained conspicuously absent.
“Ali Amin and Bushra Bibi led the employees to the protest web site, however the remainder of the management was nowhere to be seen,” he stated.
He additionally criticised the management for permitting non-political people to affect key selections, including: “Bushra Bibi is a non-political particular person. Even when she was insistent, was the get together management so weak to permit this?”
Yousafzai accused the management of failing to guard employees who got here to protest peacefully, saying: “Our employees got here to Islamabad to protest, to not face bullets.”
He condemned the federal government’s use of power, saying: “You fireplace bullets and count on our employees to face agency—are they manufactured from metal?”
He highlighted the tragic outcomes, together with the return of a employee’s physique, as proof of the protest’s mismanagement and authorities’s heavy handed response.
“Considered one of our employees’ our bodies has been returned to us,” he lamented, including: “They’re firing bullets and mocking that folks ran away.”
Addressing inside divisions, Yousafzai criticised the decision-making course of inside PTI. “If there have been variations inside the get together management, why was the protest deliberate within the first place?” he requested.
He instructed that staging a sit-in at Attock would have been a extra strategic choice, saying, “If the management had any understanding, they’d have staged a sit-in in Attock itself.”
He additionally questioned the effectiveness of PTI’s central management, saying: “Choices are made by central leaders, not provincial presidents or native management.”
Yousafzai urged the management to take duty for its selections, including: “If nobody was listening to you, you need to have resigned instantly and knowledgeable us.”
Regardless of his criticisms, Yousafzai reaffirmed PTI’s standing as a preferred political get together however urged its management to step ahead and lead with accountability. “PTI is a well-liked political get together, and its management must step ahead,” he stated.
The Islamabad protest, referred to as by PTI founder Khan, started on November 24 and was touted as a “do-or-die” march towards the federal government.
The get together’s calls for included the discharge of political prisoners, the reversal of the twenty sixth Constitutional Modification, and the restoration of what they termed their “stolen mandate.”
The protest noticed PTI get together employees gathering in Islamabad’s Pink Zone, however the demonstration turned violent after clashes with regulation enforcement.
The federal government reported the martyrdom of three Rangers and two police personnel, whereas PTI claimed that eight of its members have been killed.
A midnight crackdown by regulation enforcement dispersed the protesters and led to the short-term suspension of the protest.
PTI management introduced the choice by means of a press launch, citing issues for the security of unarmed employees and the federal government’s alleged plans to escalate violence.
Khan’s aides alleged, with out instantly offering proof, that a whole bunch had suffered gunshot wounds throughout chaotic scenes in a single day within the coronary heart of Islamabad as police dispersed protesters led by Khan’s spouse who had damaged by means of safety barricades.
Islamabad’s police chief, Ali Rizvi, denied that dwell ammunition had been used in the course of the operation, which he stated police had carried out alongside paramilitary forces.
PTI additionally stated 1000’s had been arrested. Rizvi stated 600 protesters had been arrested in Tuesday’s operation, bringing the full for the reason that protest sit-in started on Sunday to 954.
He stated weapons, together with automated rifles and tear fuel weapons, have been seized from the protest web site the place 1000’s had gathered. The location was cleared in a matter of hours.