Azam Swati, senator of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI), broke into tears during a press conference on Saturday, alleging that he and his wife were secretly recorded in a room.

Swati told the media that his wife was screaming and crying while he kept asking her what happened. “This lasted for five to 10 minutes but she didn’t speak. I called my daughter and told her to ask what happened to my beloved wife,” he stated, adding that he could not see his wife in this much pain. “I am a heart patient and have three stents. My heart was exploding,” said Swati. He then narrated that his daughter then told him to wait for a bit while she went to talk to his wife and tried to calm her down.

“The mother said someone has sent me a video anonymously., and he [your father] is in the video,” said Swati.

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“I told my daughter, doesn’t your mother understand that I sleep at 9pm and wake for tahajjud prayer at 3:30am. I have spent my whole life with your mother. Doesn’t she know that just a few days ago on 13th October, I was picked up by these merciless people, who made my video. In the present times altering a video and making a fake one is not difficult,” said Swati.

“In tears, she [Swati’s daughter] told me, ‘Daddy, this video is not of someone else but you and Mama,'” said Swati breaking down in tears.

” I said, how is this even possible,” asked a visibly emotional Swati.

Responding to what had happened, Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan tweeted, “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 [sic].”

“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. 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 [sic].”

Not only this but after Swati’s shocking claims his opponents — including Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) Mustafa Khokhar, Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz’s (PML-N) Miftah Ismail and Dr Musadik Masood Malik— tweeted in support of Swati.

The Federal Investigation Agency has released a press release stating that the obscene video of PTI Senator Azam Swati is “fake”.

“The video has been edited and different video clips have been joined together…the faces are photoshopped,” it said.

PTI Senator Azam Swati was arrested on Thursday for allegedly tweeting a “highly obnoxious and intimidating message” against state institutions, including the army chief, according to a criminal complaint filed by the FIA.

Swati’s tweet named the army chief and came after Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and Hamza Shehbaz were acquitted in a high-profile money laundering case.

Since his arrest, Swati has alleged he was stripped and tortured and has named two military officials behind his ordeal. The Senate Standing Committee on Human Rights also condemned the incident.