PTI Got Me Fired for Investigating Imran Khan’s Toshakhana, Says Journalist Rana Abrar
Journalist Rana Abrar says the PTI intimidated, threatened and got him fired from his job for investigating the Toshakhana case.
PTI Got Me Fired for Investigating Imran Khan’s Toshakhana, Says Journalist Rana Abrar
Journalist Rana Abrar, who lit the fuse of the Toshakhana case that saw former prime minister Imran Khan getting disqualified yesterday, has said that he experienced intimidation and threats from the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI), who also got him fired from two jobs, for investigating the Toshakhana.
Rana Abrar made these remarks during an appearance on journalist Shahzeb Khanzada’s television show on Friday, where he revealed what it was like after he submitted his first Right of Access to Information (RTI) on November 23, 2020.
As per the Right of Access to Information Act of 2017, the government is required to make the desired information public within 10 days of receiving the RTI. However, when the then-PTI government refused, Abrar approached the Pakistan Information Commission to appeal to it, and won the case.
When the government still showed reluctance in revealing the information that is when he says the high court’s got involved, and the issue got highlighted in the media. The PTI government had claimed that disclosing the contents of the Toshakhana would jeopardize international relations.
Abrar claims that during this time he was constantly intimidated and threatened by the PTI, who got him fired from two jobs. “At my second job, the CEO called me into his office on the third day and told me that he had no choice but to let me go because he could not afford to keep me any longer,” he said, adding that to this day he has trouble finding work at newspapers or TV channels because the PTI makes sure he won’t get hired anywhere else.
He also said that he was constantly followed everywhere he went, and that the then-PTI government also sent people to his house who threatened his elderly mother and told her that very soon a dead body would show up at the house if he did not back off.
Source: The Friday Times
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