‘Act now’ to stop ‘abuse’ of power: Imran in a letter to Prez Alvi

Pakistan’s former prime minister Imran Khan has called on President Arif Alvi to ”act now” and stop the massive ”abuse” of citizens at the hands of ”rogue elements” in the government.In a letter to the president on Sunday, Khan stated that since the removal of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) government, the country has been “confronted with an ever-increasing scale of false allegations, harassment, arrests, and custodial torture”.Khan, 70, has alleged that Interior Minister Rana Sanaullah has “repeatedly issued death threats” to him and that he was informed of an assassination plot “hatched by Prime Minister Shahbaz Sharif, Interior Minister Rana Sanaullah” and a senior military official, the Express Tribune newspaper reported.”The plot was operationalised earlier this week during our long march, but Allah saved me and the assassination attempt failed,” he said.Imran requested that as the head of the State of Pakistan and “also as the Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces” of the Constitution, President Alvi take note of the “following serious wrongdoings that undermine Pakistan’s national security”.He further asked Alvi, who also hails from Khan’s PTI, to lead an inquiry to identify the guilty “and hold them accountable”.The deposed premier reiterated that the country was observing a “massive abuse of citizens at the hands of rogue elements within state organisations, including custodial torture and abductions”, all of which he claimed was “carried out with impunity”.