ISLAMABAD   -       Former federal minister and Pakistan 
Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) leader Senator 
Azam Khan Swati on Tuesday challenged an earlier claim of the Federal 
Investigation Agency (FIA) that he was 
not tortured in its custody.
Addressing a press conference here, 
he called on Chief Justice of Pakistan 
(CJP) Umar Ata Bandial to order investigate into the matter of his custodial 
torture and deliver justice. At the same 
time, he also appealed to the Chief of 
Army Staff General Qamar Javed Bajwa 
to summon Additional Director of FIA’s 
Cyber Crime Wing Ayaz Khan in General 
Headquarters (GHQ) before his retirement and he would tell within five minutes who was behind his torture. 
“This is an appeal of a citizen of Pakistan and a sitting senator.” Again addressing the army chief, he said, “Please 
send your men to me to determine who 
played such a brutal game with a sitting 
senator.” He also requested the Supreme 
Court to take the CCTV footage from his 
house into custody and order a forensic 
audit to determine the veracity of his 
claims. He said that geo fencing and telephones’ examinations should be ordered 
to ascertain who was laughing at my cries 
and who made a video when I was being beaten and stripped napped. He said 
that Additional Director Khan should be 
investigated as he was a witness to the 
whole scene and he had been driving the 
vehicle in which he was being taken to an 
unknown place after his arrest by FIA.
The PTI leader said that he was not 
only tortured within his house, but 
was also beaten the entire way till he 
was taken to an unknown place where 
he was again physically attacked and 
stripped naked forcefully. Swati was arrested, earlier this month, by the FIA’s 
Cyber Crime Wing for tweeting against 
COAS General Bajwa. Since his arrest, 
he has alleged that he was tortured and 
stripped naked after FIA handed over 
to him to the officials of an intelligence 
agency. He has named two military officials behind his ordeal.
In his presser, he waved a copy of the 
Constitution and lamented that “this 
rulebook is not applicable to some few 
hundred people.” “I will knock at the 
door of all international institutions 
that if a senator is not protected, no citizen is safe in this country.”Senator Swati claimed that he was a living corpse 
and fighting for his fundamental rights. 
“I believe that this sacrifice … will protect a citizen, a journalist, a professor 
or a general from being stripped naked 
in the future.” During his press conference, Swati thanked the CJP for referring his case to the apex court’s Human 
Rights Cell. He appealed to higher judiciary to deliver justice to prevent such 
incidents of torture in future.