PTI is the only political party in the country which has suffered so many lives at the hands of the police, an example of this is the public protest against General Ayub Khan and the nationwide Nizam Mustafa movement against the People’s Party government of PNA in 1977. i Probably in 1968, a country-wide protest against General Ayub started, which included Foreign Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto in the Ayub government, which formed the People’s Party in 1967, and a movement against Ayub Khan, the country’s first field marshal, across United Pakistan. He was also made by himself and at the time of the 1965 war with India, General Ayub Khan was also the army chief along with the president, then after the 1965 war, the ceasefire between India and Pakistan in Tashkent. Zulfikar Ali Bhutto had resigned due to differences over the agreement that had been reached.
In the movements against Ayub Khan and Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto, there were bloody clashes between the police and the people, in which both the police and the people lost their lives. As a result of the movement against Ayub Khan, power was transferred from Ayub Khan to General Yahya and the movement ended after martial law was imposed in the country.
In 1971, due to the Indian aggression and the people of East Pakistan not accepting the mandate of General Yahya and Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto, the country was divided and Bhutto became the Prime Minister. In 1977, Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto held the premature election, which was won by two-thirds of the people’s party due to huge rigging. had refused, on which a movement against his government was started in all four provinces, which was tried to be severely crushed by the Bhutto government.
In this too, both the police and the public suffered losses and Bhutto had arrested all the major political leaders of the country, which caused so much violence against the Bhutto government that the army was called for when it was not controlled by the police. Due to severe riots, martial law was imposed in Karachi, Lahore and Multan, from which the army had to intervene when the riots did not end. was Public movements against General Ayub and Bhutto government were for new elections, but the elections could not be held, but in these two nationwide movements, the police did not suffer as many casualties as the PTI’s sit-ins and protests in Islamabad alone. happened to
Awami Tehreek’s Allama Tahir-ul-Qadri also held a dharna for several days in Islamabad along with PTI, which was a real sit-in in which Allama Sahib did not threaten the police officers, nor did Awami Tehreek’s workers fight or confront the police. which was later abolished by itself.
Professor Allama Tahir-ul-Qadri had staged a sit-in in 2007 during the last days of the PPP government and both these sit-ins ended peacefully and there was no harm to the police. Tehreek-e-Labaik also staged a dharna in Faizabad Rawalpindi which took place under the (N)-League government, which also had some support from the higher-ups, in which the police were definitely harmed. In 2014, the PTI held a long march from Lahore to Islamabad against election rigging, which was later called a sit-in. There was a failed attempt to capture important government buildings which had occult support.
PTI Chairman sometimes announced the execution of the IG Police and sometimes he reached the police station to rescue the arrested workers involved in attacks on the police and threatened the police to free his workers. In those days, PTI workers started attacking the police, but the police managed to defend themselves and the workers overpowered the police and attacked the police themselves, which was encouraged by the founder PTI. Bani’s supporters did not take the police into account and injured dozens of police officers and soldiers.
In the recent protest too, PTI workers brutally assaulted a policeman in Islamabad, killing him. According to PTI activists, they took police officers of Islamabad and Punjab hostage in recent protests, injured dozens of them by torturing them and forced them to chant slogans in favor of the founding PTI. No party in the country has organized attacks on the police till date and never threw petrol bombs on these police parties or injured the policemen with slingshots.
PP Senator Sherry Rehman while speaking in the Senate session said that our founder was hanged but we never attacked the police. In the PTI government, when the police officers went to arrest Asif Zardari, instead of resisting, they treated the police with respect and gave them tea and arrested them themselves. Not even while a police officer was accused by PP that he had bitten Asif Zardari’s tongue.
In Zaman Park, Lahore, the founding PTI had planned and surrounded itself with its armed workers to avoid arrest. Whenever the police went to Zaman Park on the court order, the police were not allowed to enter Zaman Park.
There was strong armed resistance against the police, from which even a police officer was seriously injured. The leaders of PTI, the first party in the country to resist brutal police brutality, armed attacks and fierce resistance, claim that it is a peaceful party, while the massive loss of life by the police at the hands of PTI is in the history of the country. All the parties together have not harmed the police so much and yet the PTI leaders, especially the lawyer leaders, do not get tired of claiming to be peaceful.
