ISLAMABAD: The Opposition Leader in the National Assembly, Omar Ayub Khan, alleged on Monday that the government and its agencies could not “digest” the Supreme Court’s verdict in the reserved seats case.

Speaking at a presser, Ayub along with ex-NA speaker Asad Qaiser, PTI chairman Gohar Ali Khan and other senior party leaders, said that the party’s lawmakers from Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa and Punjab were supposed to submit their affidavits today and those of the latter were present in the office. Speaking on the occasion, Gohar Ali Khan said “our entire record” was seized, including various documents on intra-party elections, and 10 party workers were missing.

He said he was concerned about Hasan’s health and thus, had left with him. “I sat with him and we were taken to the police station at Islamabad Police Lines where I was told: ‘There is no case against you, you’re not wanted in any case and you can’t remain here but Hasan will remain here.’”

He alleged that ever since the Supreme Court’s reserved seats case verdict, only one party was being targeted with its lawmakers and their associates being abducted. Gohar said the party would bring all action into play for Hasan and expressed the hope that he would be discharged if presented in court tomorrow.

The NA opposition leader said: “The raid was the excuse. The target was the affidavits.”

Railing against the military spokesperson’s press conference, he said it was an “indictment” against the PML-N government and its ineptitude.

He said the press conference was not warranted since the DG ISPR was a part of the state and “not the state itself”.

“The PML-N’s failure pushed the DG ISPR to come forward and hold this press conference.”

Ayub particularly questioned the spokesperson’s emphasis on the need to curb the “illegal spectrum”, saying if that was the case then an inquiry commission should be formed on the wheat scandal during the caretaker government and the alleged role of Interior Minister Mohsin Naqvi in it.

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