Police action a throwback to martial law regimes: Moonis Elahi

PML-Q leader Moonis Elahi has said that police action against students and Railways workers in Lahore are reminders of the martial law regimes of the past and the incidents have spread panic in the already harassed public.

Moonis Elahi was talking to the office-bearers of PML-Q Education Wing on phone from London on Wednesday.

Mr Moonis Elahi said the way police used kicks, fists, batons and tear gas against students and railways workers proved that Shahbaz government had turned the province into a police state.

He said that the policemen who were otherwise being discouraged from apprehending criminals because of the latter’s connections with the ruling elite had been given a free hand by the Punjab government to chase innocent students and workers and thrash them.

The PML-Q leader said the whole country witnessed the inhuman treatment of inflicted on students workers by police through the media.

He said the fact that no government high-up expressed sympathy to the injured and against the police high-handedness proved that the police action was taken at the behest of the Punjab government.

He said during Chaudhry Pervaiz Elahi’s five-year tenure in the Punjab government, there was not a single such gory incident on record and his gave the youth and the workers maximum respect.

He condemned the use of state machinery against the deprived and oppressed sections of the society, saying the police action reflected the mentality of the Punjab rulers.