Pakistan

‘Audio leak’ reveals PTI leader Kanwal Shauzab's role in GHQ attack

PTI MPA instructs women's wing official to reach military headquarters on orders of Kanwal Shauzab

News Desk May 24, 2023

A recently surfaced purported audio recording on social media has shed light on the involvement of Kanwal Shauzab, a former Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) lawmaker, in the GHQ attack in Rawalpindi on May 9 in the wake of Imran Khan’s arrest.

During the purported call, PTI MPA Farah allegedly instructs party's Deputy Secretary General Women's Wing, Farakhanda, to reach GHQ on the orders of Kanwal Shauzab.

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— indibell (@indibell_) May 24, 2023

Prior to this, a video also made rounds on social media in which Kanwal can be seen inciting PTI supporters to cause chaos in Rawalpindi.

"If everything becomes normal then go home and sleep, forget about freedom, and prepare for slavery," she can be heard saying in the video.

تحریک انصاف کی رہنما کنول شوذب کی 9 مئی کو کمیٹی چوک راولپنڈی میں کارکنوں کو طیش دلانے کی ویڈیو منظر عام پر آگئی
کنول شوذب کارکنوں کو بھڑکاتے ہوئے کہتی ہیں کہ اگر ہر چیز نارمل چلے گی توپھرجاؤ گھروں میں جاکر سوجاؤ، پھر آزادی کو کہوبھول جاؤ اور غلامی کی تیاری پکڑو pic.twitter.com/8Tz0JVn0jE
— Ghulam Raza Khan (@G_raza_k) May 21, 2023

When the party workers asked about the absence of MPAs and MNAs, she said: "to hell with them".

Meanwhile, a statement by PTI's Deputy General Secretary Women Wing, Palwasha Abbasi, has also emerged, in which she condemned the events of May 9 and stated that Women Wing was involved in the GHQ attack under the command of Kanwal Shauzab.

ویمن ونگ کی اس شرمناک حرکت9مئیGHQپلان کی پُرزورمزمت کرتی ہوں اوراُمیدکرتی ہوں کےخان صاحب اس سارےواقع کانوٹس خود لیں کہ کیسے چیزیں exploite کی گئیں۔
قانون کابھرپورساتھ دونگی اوراپنی لیگل ٹیم سےڈسکشن کےبعدچنددن میں تمام ثبوتوں کےساتھ پریس کانفرنس میں باقی انکشافات کرونگی! pic.twitter.com/1RhqotVJU2
— Palwasha Abbasi (@PalwashaAbbasi0) May 20, 2023

In an unprecedented show of vandalism, the violent protesters ransacked the gates of the Pakistan Army’s General Headquarters (GHQ) in Rawalpindi on May 9. So far, the Rawalpindi police have registered 17 cases at various police stations against PTI activists involved in the violent protests.

PTI supporters had also attacked and caused damage to the historic Corps' Commander’s House — originally known as Jinnah House and which once served as the residence of the founding father of the nation, Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah — hours after the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) arrested PTI chief Imran Khan in the Al-Qadir Trust corruption case on May 9.