PTI shares, then deletes graphic video from 2019 claiming police brutality
A graphic video is being pushed on Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) affiliated social media accounts, depicting severely injured people in a hospital, alleging that the victims in the footage are injured PTI protestors in Islamabad.
Fact Check: The graphic video is from 2019 Nankana Sahib’s DHQ Hospital when two rival groups opened fire on each other.
PTI’s official page on Instagram shared the video; however, it was later deleted. Some PTI supporters are still sharing the video, claiming it to be the victims of an alleged massacre after the security forces launched a crackdown on PTI protestors in Islamabad.
Sabir Shakir posted the video on November 29 with the caption: “This is the floor of a hospital in Islamabad.” The post has garnered more than 116K views till now with more than seven thousand reposts and eleven thousand likes.
Likewise, another social media user re-tweeted the video, writing, “What story are the injured protesters brought to Islamabad hospital after the operation on November 26 and their blood on the floor?”
Another user posted, “This is not Palestine or Gaza, but the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, where innocent people are being massacred. Yazid and descendants of Yazid are still present in the world.”
Another X user wrote, “Every one can see Nawaz, Maryam @MaryamNSharif‘s. signatures in mass murder of innocent people 3 days hungry thirsty & sleep deprived along with General Asim and Shahbaz face. Why we Pakistan tolerate it ?”
While multiple PTI supporting accounts ran trending hashtags like #گولی_کیوں_چلائی and #IslamabadMassacre.
After PTI began its “final call” towards Islamabad, tensions between law enforcement and protesters ran high, as the federal government deployed the military in Islamabad by invoking Article 245 of the Constitution.
A notification issued by the Interior Ministry said that the army had been authorised to impose a curfew in any locality deemed necessary to maintain law and order.
The opposition leader in the National Assembly, Omar Ayub Khan, on Friday demanded a judicial probe into the recent use of force against protesters in the federal capital.
“The chief justice of Pakistan should constitute a fact-finding committee to bring facts to the fore,” said Omar Ayub who is the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Member National Assembly from the Haripur district while talking to reporters in the Peshawar High Court (PHC) where he had turned up to secure a transit bail.
The PTI leader said the party leadership shared the grief of the families of those who died in Islamabad. He also said the financial compensation had already been announced by the KP government for the heirs of the deceased and the injured.