May 9 attacks meticulously planned, carried out at specific targets: Punjab IG

 Punjab Police Inspector General (IG) Usman Anwar has said that several Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf leaders including Yasmin Rashid, Hammad Azhar, and Mian Mehmood-ur-Rasheed were involved in May 9 attacks, reported the 24NewsHD TV channel.  

Addressing a press conference here on Sunday, the IGP Punjab flanked by other senior officers, disclosed that May 9 attacks were pre-planned with various PTI leaders masterminding the riots.

Dr. Yasmin Rashid, Mian Mehmood-ur-Rasheed, and Hammad Azhar whose call recordings are sufficient proof that were involved in the riots that occurred on May 9.

The provincial police chief maintained that in the GHQ case, 88 calls were linked to the leadership adding a record of each call was present mentioning 215 calls were made in Zaman Park before the May 9 mayhem.

He revealed that out of the total calls analyzed, 154 calls were found to be identical, while Yasmin Rashid was responsible for 41 calls during May 9 events. He hinted that records of every call made during these incidents are available and will be presented as evidence in court.

IG Dr Usman announced that the decision of the anti-terrorism court (ATC) would be challenged in Lahore High Court (LHC).

He mentioned that Dr. Yasmin and other leaders were also involved in the Jinnah House attack adding that all the evidence would be presented in the courts while saying hatred against state institutions was spread through social media.

He said the memoirs of martyrs were desecrated mentioning the miscreants attacked sensitive security installation that was even not attacked by the enemy country.

The police chief added law has taken its course as out of 708 arrested miscreants, 125 have been produced in court while mentioning that a WhatsApp group of 170 people have also been identified and 17 arrested miscreants belong to the WhatsApp group.

The IG denied any violence against women in jails adding even the arrested women themselves have refuted this claim because there were 150 cameras installed in prisons so there was no question of any violence against women in prisons.

The top provincial cop said no woman was violently treated in the prisons adding in fact the police personnel were attacked by miscreants and as a result, they were injured.

 He claimed that the call data from the riots that took place on March 8 and May 9 shows significant similarities. As a result of successful identification, the perpetrators have been apprehended, he added.

Regarding the events on May 9, the IGP Punjab provided further insight, explaining that the attacks were meticulously planned and executed simultaneously at specific targets, including Jinnah House, GHQ, and Radio Pakistan, among others.

He said that the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) disseminated false propaganda on social media.