Punjab caretaker Chief Minister Mohsin Naqvi on Saturday called out the PTI leadership for blaming for the murder of a party worker, saying he will not bow down to the pressure through “curses and tweets”.
A PTI worker named Ali Bilal died while several others were seriously injured and many picked up on March 8 as the caretaker Punjab government used force to block a rally called to launch the party’s campaign for the April 30 elections to the provincial assembly.
On Friday, police claimed to have arrested two suspects, identified as Umar and Jehanzeb, who claimed that Bilal sustained multiple injuries after he was involved in an accident with their car. Dawn quoted sources as saying that the two claimed the accident occurred in Fortress Stadium, where Bilal was present along with five other friends, probably PTI workers.
The claims of torture have been corroborated by Bilal’s postmortem report, issued by the Mayo Hospital. It said the victim was subjected to “massive blunt trauma”, while a fracture to his skull and subsequent bleeding has been cited as the cause of death. The report also noted damage to his liver, spleen and testes, which led to profuse bleeding.
At a press conference in Lahore today, the caretaker chief minister denied the involvement of his administration in the incident.
“We are not barring you from politics but you should refrain from levelling baseless allegations on us,” he told a press briefing in Lahore.
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