LAHORE: Tehreek-e-Tahafuz-e-Ayin-e-Pakistan (TTAP) Punjab on Thursday condemned the death of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Rawalpindi Cantonment Senior Vice President Ijaz Satti in Punjab Police custody, holding the provincial government responsible for providing answers about the incident.
In a statement, TTAP Punjab Information Secretary Shayan Bashir alleged that Satti had been taken from his home by Westridge police a few days ago and suffered a cardiac arrest while being shifted in a police vehicle. He alleged that Satti’s body was subsequently left at DHQ Hospital Rawalpindi.
“An elderly man in poor health does not survive a raid by the force meant to protect him. A departmental inquiry will not settle this,” Bashir said, demanding an independent judicial inquiry into the death. He also called for the immediate release of the post-mortem report and unedited CCTV footage to Satti’s family, besides a public account of every minute he spent in state custody.
Bashir said the TTAP Punjab would also continue pursuing the issue of the Punjab chief minister’s use of a government aircraft for what he described as a private visit to London. “A state aircraft is not available for private travel, and no repayment was made afterwards changes that,” he said, alleging that the public had been given four different accounts of the matter in less than two weeks.
He said the Punjab government had initially stated that the chief minister had paid for the trip herself, while a deposit of Rs27.19 million had now been announced by a party legislator on social media rather than by the Punjab Finance Department.
Bashir demanded that the challan and treasury receipt relating to the payment be made public and placed before the Punjab Assembly. He also sought clarification from the provincial government about the rule under which a provincial aircraft was made available for a family occasion.
Copyright Business Recorder, 2026
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