Rapist Farooq Bandial a politician hailing from district Khushab in Punjab, has been expelled from Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) hours after he was welcomed by the party chairman on May 31, 2018.
What urged PTI to expel Bandial is criticism that took place to social media because of Farooq’s conviction of raping a former film star. A special military court handed him to death sentence in 1979 for committing “armed dacoity” and “gang-rape” of the actress at her house at Gulberg, Lahore.
Bandial was one of those 5 accused who allegedly raped the actress in front of her husband and son. However, this convicted criminal got pardoned in Zia regime.
Jharna Basak, stage named Shabnam, is a Bangladeshi stage & film actress who was introduced to Pakistani film industry by Waheed Murad offering her a lead role in his film Samundar in 1968. She left Pakistan in the 1970s for her native Bangladesh in the late 1990s.
Some reports say that the death sentences handed over to Bandial and his accomplices were pardoned by General Ziaul Haq after the accused pressured Shabnam & her family into pardoning them.
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Farooq Bandial, the former PML-N stalwart was welcomed to PTI by chairman Imran Khan on yesterday at Bani Gala, Islamabad.
Hours after the news broke of Bandial’s joining the party, a large number of people took to social media to criticise PTI for accepting a “convicted criminal” into the party’s ranks.
In response to backlash on social media, PTI spokesman Fawad Chaudhry Tweeted that Imran Khan had taken notice of the reports regarding Bandial and that a one-member committee comprising party leader Naeemul Haque would be investigating the matter and will present its findings to the chairman within 3 days.
He wrote that “PTI will not compromise on ethical standards in any condition,”.
Hours later, Haque took to Twitter for announcing that Bandial had been expelled from the party with immediate effect.
Haque, terming his entry into the party “unfortunate”, said: “We have no place for people with such record in our party”, adding that “He should not be in any political party,”.
PTI member Shireen Mazari highlighted her party’s higher standards for kicking out a criminal, who remained associated with the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) for twenty years, from PTI.
