LAHORE – PTI Senator Azam Swati on Saturday claimed that his personal videos with his wife were leaked to one of his family members from an unknown number.
The senior politician, who recently accused some high ranking military men for custodial torture after he was arrested in a case related to provoking tweets against state institutions, revealed it while talking to media in Lahore.
Divulging the details, Swati brusted into tears and said that the personal videos were sent to my daughter, adding that the videos were shot when he was visiting Quetta with his wife.
“When a daughter tells her father that such video belongs to her parents, think what kind of mental stress I had to face,” he questioned.
Swat revealed that Senate chairman Sadiq Sanjrani had made arrangements for his accommodation at the judicial lodges of the Supreme Court in Quetta. “I was told that no any Supreme Court judge is currently in Quetta and I can stay in the lodges,” he said.
Lashing out at the perpetrators, he said that they have started leaking the family videos after they failed to find any corruption and immoral things against him.
Saying the sanctity of husband and wife relations has been violated, he urged the top court to ensure justice in the case.
“I cannot commit suicide but I will stay in the country to fight the cruelty,” he said.
Meanwhile, PTI Chairman Imran Khan, who recently shot in the leg during gun attack at his party’s long march, has said that leaking the video of Swati and his wife is “shocking, despicable & utterly condemnable”.
Taking to Twitter, he wrote: :Pakistan was created on Islamic moral values of human dignity, honour of the family & inviolability of chadar & chardawari. What has happened to Azam Swati at the hands of the State has been a blatant violation of all these values – from being stripped naked to custodial torture & now this video where privacy of his wife has been violated”.
& now this video where privacy of his wife has been violated. It is both shocking, despicable & utterly condemnable. No human being should have to suffer this. I call on the CJP to take suo moto notice of this.
— Imran Khan (@ImranKhanPTI) November 5, 2022
“It is both shocking, despicable & utterly condemnable. No human being should have to suffer this,” he said while urging the Chief Justice of Pakistan Umar Ata Bandial to take suo moto of the incident.
“I want to apologise on behalf of Pakistan to Mrs Swati, a very private, non public, tahajut guzaar lady for the pain, anguish and sense of humiliation she is having to suffer,” Khan wrote.
I want to apologise on behalf of Pakistan to Mrs Swati, a very private, non public, tahajut guzaar lady for the pain, anguish and sense of humiliation she is having to suffer.
— Imran Khan (@ImranKhanPTI) November 5, 2022
Senior analyst Mazhar Abbas also termed the incident acceptable.
Senator Azam Swati's video statement should be an eye opener for every democratc and rights activist. Wonder how come someone like Senator Pervez Rasheed is silent as he himself had faced such humiliation. This is not acceptable.
— Mazhar Abbas (@MazharAbbasGEO) November 5, 2022
“Senator Azam Swati’s video statement should be an eye opener for every democratc and rights activist. Wonder how come someone like Senator Pervez Rasheed is silent as he himself had faced such humiliation. This is not acceptable,” he wrote on Twitter.
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