Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) leader Omar Ayub has alleged that despite repeated efforts, he and other party leaders are being denied access to the PTI founder, even though a court order had directed prison authorities to allow the meeting.
Speaking to the media, Ayub said that loyalists of the PTI founder are being handed down 40-year sentences, while courts in Faisalabad and Sargodha are issuing contradictory verdicts, raising further questions about judicial fairness.
He further revealed that a former Auditor General had prepared a report—signed by then-President Asif Zardari—that documented corruption worth Rs. 366 billion. However, the new Auditor General later declared that the figure was actually Rs. 10 trillion. When questioned, officials downplayed the discrepancy as a “typing error.” Ayub criticized this explanation, calling it nothing less than a grand-scale robbery.
On rising food prices, Ayub argued that the spike in the cost of wheat and bread was not solely due to the floods but rather a direct consequence of flawed government policies. He pointed out that the Punjab government had even refused to allow a single kilogram of wheat flour to be supplied to Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
He also alleged that aid workers in flood-hit regions face police cases if relief packages are distributed without images of PML-N leaders Maryam Nawaz or Shehbaz Sharif printed on them.
