Pakistan’s former prime minister Imran Khan and his close aides coordinated the unprecedented attacks on the military installations in Lahore and other parts of Punjab province on May 9 following his arrest, the Punjab police chief alleged on Thursday.
Geo-fencing is a technology that allows the movements of a person, vehicle, etc. to be recorded or limited using satellite signals.He added that all the rioters were in contact with the PTI top leadership at the PTI party chief’s Zaman Park residence.
Law enforcement agencies have arrested around 10,000 people across the country, mostly leaders and workers of the PTI, for their alleged involvement in the violence that erupted in the wake of Khan’s arrest in a corruption case by paramilitary Rangers from the Islamabad High Court (IHC) premises earlier this month.
The geo-fencing record showed that Khan’s residence was used for planning the attack on the Lahore Corps Commander’s house, also known as Jinnah House, IGP Anwar told the Dawn newspaper. Six other PTI leaders — Hammad Azhar, Dr Yasmin Rashid, Mahmoodur Rasheed, Ijaz Chaudhary, Aslam Iqbal, and Murad Ras — are the other suspects involved in planning the attacks, Anwar said.Khan, however, blamed the Intelligence Bureau (IB) and the Military Intelligence (MI) for hatching a conspiracy to launch the May 9 attacks to eliminate the PTI.
“Why no investigation is carried out as they were killed in a straight firing,” he asked.Khan also lamented that 10,000 workers of his party were locked up in small cells in jails.
“They are not getting food and water and also being denied access to their lawyers. The PTI workers are kept in jails like an enemy country,” he said.
The former premier alleged that taking advantage of the attack on the Corps Commander’s house in Lahore, which was pre-panned, the government launched an unprecedented crackdown on his party workers.
