Information Minister Attaullah Tarar on Friday said the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) would probe into the handling of PTI founder Imran Khan’s social media accounts which were being used to create chaos and anarchy in the country, and undermining the national security.
“He (the PTI founder) should be ashamed of undermining national security, inciting people to anarchy and committing the sedition,” said the minister while talking to the media.
Tarar said the FIA had decided to investigate the handling of the social media accounts of the jailed PTI founder. It would be ascertained who is the handler of his social media accounts, and whether such posts were being made on his behest or it was done on directives of someone else, he added.
He said a botched attempt had been made to conspire against the sitting chief justice and heads of other institutions. Through these posts, he tried to mobilize the people against two major state institutions which is highly condemnable.
The minister said this conspiracy was destined to fail as his accusations against the interior minister and others had nothing to do with the reality.
The PTI founder had all the facilities like a presidential suit in the jail, but yet he still resorted to attack the state institutions, he said, adding nobody would be allowed to do so at any cost.
He said the FIA would inquire into this issue and the PTI founder would be investigated in this regard.
The minister said the message posted on the social media from the account of the PTI founder was tantamount to sedition, and creating anarchy in the country.
He said the PTI founder, in the post, had once again related himself with Sheikh Mujeeb-ur-Rehman, but he seemed to be elusive about the current situation in Bangladesh where the latter’s statues were demolished by the people after realizing the truth about history.
The minister said the examples quoted by the PTI founder in his social media posts were condemnable. “There will be an investigation as to who is running the accounts of the PTI’s founder on social media,” he noted.
The PTI has always targeted journalists, attacked them, launched smear campaigns against them on social media, said the minister, adding this party had completely resisted and discouraged the difference of opinion during their government’s tenure.
He called the PTI as “Tehreek-e-Intishar” which always encouraged its workers to resort to accusations, attacks and abuse if anybody disagreed with them in any case whatsoever.
The minister recalled the harassment of a female journalist by the PTI during one of its public gatherings in Lahore. Another journalist Sadaf was hit by a container and got killed during one of the rallies of the PTI founder.
