By The South Asia Times

ISLAMABAD - Pakistan former Prime Minister Imran Khan on Friday accused the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa police carried out illegal raids and vandalizing his party’s provincial president and former federal minister Ali Amin Gandapur's house in his home town Dera Ismail Khan.

Khan, in a series of tweets, Khan said that the practice of illegal raids and ransacking the homes of PTI leaders and workers still continues unabated.

“PTI KP President Ali Amin Gandapur, who was arbitrarily detained earlier and spent a month in prisons all over the country where he was also subjected to custodial torture, has had his home raided again,” he added.

He also posted photos of Gandapur’s house, showing the doors broken and his party flags scattered outside on the lawn. 

Khan further accused the police that during the raid, they harassed Gandapur’s 82-year-old father for 5 hours, plundered and  looted millions of rupees worth valuables and took away 5 vehicles, while police also deliberately caused a gas leak which could’ve even blown up the house.

“These tactics will not break the resolve of Pakistanis or deter their spirits for Haqeeqi Azadi, but it is fracturing the relationship between the State & its citizens.

“We will file a case of 22A in the courts against IG police KP and the DCO responsible for these acts of vandalism. My message to police and government officials is that circumstances never remain the same and rest assured that you will be held accountable for these crimes. And “orders from above “ won’t keep you out of prison,” he warned.

Gandapur’s brother and former provincial minister Faisal Amin Khan while replying to Khan’s tweet and said “These cowardly attacks can not & will not deter us from standing at the frontlines by your side in this struggle to save #Pakistan from the Gang of Criminals imposed upon our poor Nation.”

However, so far no statement has been issued by the police that why they carried out the raid on the opposition leader home as currently Khan’s party leaders are facing cases and many of his leaders and workers are in prison following the May 9 violent protest across the country after paramilitary forces arrested Khan in Islamabad from a court premises which later the Supreme Court of Pakistan termed illegal and ordered to release Khan.