LAHORE, Nov 5 (FD): Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Senator Azam Swati claimed on Saturday that his wife was sent a private video, featuring the two of them, from an “unknown number” as he broke down while narrating the ordeal.
The PTI senator, addressing the media, said his wife had called him on Friday night and kept shouting and crying. Swati said he then asked his daughter to inquire from her mother regarding what the matter was.
He further said that when his daughter insisted, his wife revealed that someone had sent her a private video of him from an “unknown number”, but refused to say anything further as the “daughters and granddaughters of the country are listening”.
Narrating the ordeal further, the senior PTI leader said his daughter then revealed that the video sent had him and the wife.
Swati further said that he explained to his daughter that her mother doesn’t understand that he sleeps at 9 PM and wakes up early morning for prayers.
He added that his daughter kept weeping on the other side of the phone and said, “Daddy, this video isn’t of anyone else.. it is yours and my mother’s…I told her how is this possible.”
“I have spent my entire life with her. She doesn’t know that a few days ago, on the morning of October 13, when I was picked up by these cruel people, they made a video of me. These days it isn’t difficult to…. make a fake video.”
Earlier, speaking of his ‘custodial torture’, Swati appeared before the Supreme Court’s (SC) human rights cell and stated his honor had been ripped apart and he was living like a “breathing corpse”.
Talking to media outside the apex court, Swati said, “I live and die every day. Arshad Sharif has been martyred, why was I left alive?”
The senator got emotionally overwhelmed during the talk, stating that he has been unable to sleep. “Every time I fall asleep, I wake up 15 minutes later,” the PTI senator said, adding that he will not give up until those who did wrong to him are brought to justice.
“My honour was shattered in a blow. I ask, is a tweet my only crime?” he said.
This was the second time that Swati shared the account of an ordeal he allegedly went through, initially having described his “custodial torture” on November 1.
