ISLAMABAD: PTI Senator Azam Swati, who allegedly invited wrath of the powerful quarters of the country by posting a tweet regarding military establishment that not only was termed ‘objectionable’ but attracted sedition charges as well, has once again addressed Army Chief Gen Bajwa, for receiving ‘extra judicial punishment while addressing the COAS by name’ on social media.
Gen. Bajwa Sb
The entire Nation knows by now, the extent of Extrajudicial Punishment given to me while addressing you by name, in a constitutionally protected tweet by a senior citizen and sitting senator. (1/12)— Senator Azam Khan Swati (@AzamKhanSwatiPk) November 10, 2022
In a series of tweets posted on social media, Senator Azam Swati penned down events in details the physical assault and breaking down of his personality in return for ‘heinous unwritten offense’ [objectional tweet regarding Army Chief].
Senator Azam Swati wrote: “Gen. Bajwa Sb The entire Nation knows by now, the extent of Extrajudicial Punishment given to me while addressing you by name, in a constitutionally protected tweet by a senior citizen and sitting senator.”
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Referring to his ‘controversial tweet’, he went on writing that “no one knew that it was so heinous unwritten offense that earlier subjected me 2 face 1. Mutiny 2. Illegal raid on my house 3. Theft of personal property and vandalism in the house 4. Beating of domestic staff 5. Arrest and physical assault in presence of family and granddaughters, 6. Worst physical torture in car while transporting me to unknown location 7. Stripping off clothes at an unknown location & making video at that location on way to FIA police station 8. Prevailing on PIMS medical team 9. Taking police remand 3 times from the lower courts.
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Referring to his leaked video, which according to him was recorded during his stay in Quetta federal lodges, Senator Swati said “to a few in power if this grave inhuman, cruel and unusual punishment was not enough they stooped further to lowest level releasing most despicable personal video of a married grandmother and grandfather to seal his lips and overrun his conscience under duress.
Senator Swati went on to say that “today, dark pages of history with worse kinds of oppression have been unleashed and meted at 74-year-old Sitting Senator and many others. He is not the first or the last to be dishonored,” adding that there were thousands, but none dared to come in public to expose the predators. “What is done to me cannot be undone but I am doing it to protect the most sacred institutions of marriage in Islam and any potential victims which can be a common citizen, a Journalist, a Student, an MNA, a Senator, a technocrat, a businessman, a bureaucrat, a religious scholar, a teacher, a lawyer or a General.”
Commenting on the present-day tools available for general public and ways and means to gain access to actual information, Senator Swati wrote “history tells us that 60 years ago even the cruelest person Adolph Hitler could not stop Historians from depicting, recording, and preserving the horrors and brutalities of the Holocaust. We are living in an age of Information, Tech, and hype of Social-Media which is a disguised blessing, a voice, and a spokesman for the voiceless, weak, vulnerable, and it is available to both powerful and powerless,” adding that “therefore the pages of history will remember us and eventually truth will be evident, and it is destined to prevail.
Addressing Army Chief General Bajwa, Senator Azam Swati said “Gen. Bajwa sb now Pakistan’s history will be preserved by the most effective tool of social media by the writers and Historians in which overseas Pakistanis will play a vital role in Freeing Pakistan from the shackles of slavery and oppression, we all will wait. Time is the best teacher and observer. History will be written with evidence as to who destroyed our economic, political, and social structure for personal gains, and greed?
