PTI unveils dossier on 'human rights violations' by govt.

ISLAMABAD -- The PTI released a dossier on Tuesday that details 'massive human rights violations' allegedly meted out to the party and its allies by the present government over the past year.

The dossier seeks to compile all the alleged human rights violations from April 10 last year - when the former prime minister and PTI chief Imran Khan was ousted - to March 21. It accused the government of illegal arrests, detention, custodial torture and victimising political workers, suppressing media reporting, attacking freedom of expression, and violating the dignity and privacy of political opponents.

The PTI has said that the dossier would be shared with the diplomatic community and international organisations, and it would also try to get personalities in federal and Punjab governments declared as persona non grata, like Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi was denied international travel after the 2002 massacre of Muslims in Gujrat.

The main opposition party has also announced that it would file cases against Punjab's and Islamabad's inspector generals of police out of the country and warned that Pakistan would again be placed on the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) grey list, which warrants increased surveillance for terrorism financing. Pakistan was removed from the list in October last year after more than four years.

Says will make efforts to get personalities in federal, Punjab govts declared as persona non grata

The announcements were made by senior PTI leaders Fawad Chaudhry and Dr Shireen Mazari during a press conference in Islamabad.

Dr Mazari, a former human rights minister, told reporters that the dossier contained all 'human rights conventions ratified by the government of Pakistan' and 'proof regarding custodial torture and other alleged atrocities on PTI workers'.

'Enforced disappearances and violation of human rights have become common in Pakistan,' she said, adding that unknown people had been openly picking up...

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