Former National Assembly deputy speaker Qasim Suri was attacked by unidentified individuals while he was having Sehri with his companions at an eatery in Islamabad earlier today.
Suri, who has appealed to the police to take notice of the incident, said that he was at an eatery in Islamabad when 15-20 individuals pulled up in white pick-up trucks, and began chanting 'Chor, Ghaddaar and PTI murdabaad' (thief, traitor and death to PTI) as they approached him.
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He hand-wrote an application to the Kohsar station house officer, in which he claimed the men carried iron rods and intended to kill him. "They were constantly threatening that nobody would be able to leave alive," he said.
In the application, he also said that him and two of his companions, Adeel Mirza and Khalid Bhatti would be able to identify the perpetrators if presented before them. He also mentioned injuries sustained by the his companions, saying two had sustained injuries on their eye, and one on his leg.
On Suri's behalf, the police registered an FIR under Sections 148 (rioting while armed with deadly weapon), 149 (punishment for all members of an unlawful assembly guilty of offence committed in prosecution of common object) and 506 (punishment for criminal intimidation) of the Pakistan Penal Code.
The ex-deputy speaker took to Twitter to complain about the attack, alleging that Pakistan Muslim League -Nawaz (PML-N) goons had been behind the attack, and said that the gone are the days of the 'corrupt' and 'imported' government which is a 'slave to the US'.
Senator Ejaz Chaudhary tweeted a video of Suri's video statement after the incident took place, and alleged that the unidentified individuals had been the 'henchmen' of Jamhoori Wattan Party leader Shahzain Bugti, who was a member of the government's delegation to Saudi Arabia which was verbally attacked by PTI supporters in Madina. He insinuated that the attack was in response to the incident in Madina.
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Suri, who has appealed to the police to take notice of the incident, said that he was at an eatery in Islamabad when 15-20 individuals pulled up in white pick-up trucks, and began chanting 'Chor, Ghaddaar and PTI murdabaad' (thief, traitor and death to PTI) as they approached him.
https://twitter.com/PTIofficial/status/1519805679992721412
He hand-wrote an application to the Kohsar station house officer, in which he claimed the men carried iron rods and intended to kill him. "They were constantly threatening that nobody would be able to leave alive," he said.
In the application, he also said that him and two of his companions, Adeel Mirza and Khalid Bhatti would be able to identify the perpetrators if presented before them. He also mentioned injuries sustained by the his companions, saying two had sustained injuries on their eye, and one on his leg.
On Suri's behalf, the police registered an FIR under Sections 148 (rioting while armed with deadly weapon), 149 (punishment for all members of an unlawful assembly guilty of offence committed in prosecution of common object) and 506 (punishment for criminal intimidation) of the Pakistan Penal Code.
The ex-deputy speaker took to Twitter to complain about the attack, alleging that Pakistan Muslim League -Nawaz (PML-N) goons had been behind the attack, and said that the gone are the days of the 'corrupt' and 'imported' government which is a 'slave to the US'.
Senator Ejaz Chaudhary tweeted a video of Suri's video statement after the incident took place, and alleged that the unidentified individuals had been the 'henchmen' of Jamhoori Wattan Party leader Shahzain Bugti, who was a member of the government's delegation to Saudi Arabia which was verbally attacked by PTI supporters in Madina. He insinuated that the attack was in response to the incident in Madina.
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