PML-N's Daniyal Aziz allegedly thrashes gun club staffer

Aziz says PTI elements creating difficulties in club

ISLAMABAD: An employee of the Gun and Country Club (GCC) was allegedly assaulted on Saturday by PML-N Member National Assembly Daniyal Aziz, who is also the administrator of the club.

Yasir Javaid, administration and finance manager at the club, claimed  that the ruling party MNA ‘swore at him’ and ‘thrashed him’ after he challenged Aziz’s order to transfer the charge of administration manager to another official. “When I told him that the move needed the approval of the managing board of the club, he became angry and started swearing at me. He called me a s** of a b***** and also slapped and kicked me,” Javaid told The Express Tribune on Sunday.

“Aziz started slapping and hitting me on the right side of my forehead while GCC Secretary Ather Rauf Bhatti and Admin Assistant Manager Nauman Afzal aided [Aziz] by holding me,” Javaid maintained in an application he submitted to the police on Sunday.

Javaid says that the same evening, the club management issued a memo banning his entry to the club’s premises. He has requested the police to book Aziz for physically assaulting him.

The police said they would summon the other party and hear their point of view before taking any action.

When asked about the allegation, Aziz said Javaid was “facing disciplinary action due to gross insubordination that is documented”. He claimed PTI elements were creating difficulties in the club with an aim to deflect his hard stance in Panama case. “Naeem Bokhari had challenged my appointment as administrator in the high court by claiming the president and prime minister had acted improperly, but the government came on record with all credentials and [Bokhari] was stumped”, he added.

The MNA said Javaid, the complainant, was motivated to make such claims. “There are people behind him that have financial and political motivations,” he said.

Meanwhile, GCC Secretary Ather Rauf Bhatti said Javaid was originally the finance manager and was given the additional charge of administration manager. “We now have another man available and asked Javaid to transfer the charge of administration to him but he told me that only the administrator was authorised to transfer the charge. But when Daniyal Aziz, the administrator, asked him to hand over the charge, Javaid refused and told him “do whatever you want to do”.

“I saw that Yasir was coming out of the office yelling at the administrator and using abusive language,” an incident report written by the secretary said.

Bhatti says the only thing Aziz said to Javaid was “get out of my sight”, after which Javaid went to his office. He said allegation of physical assault was absolutely false. He also said that there were people with vested interests who were using Javaid.

Published in The Express Tribune, January 10^th, 2017.