"‘A heavy police force arrived during my press conference,’ said Sahibzada Hamid Raza
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00:00First of all, please tell us quickly that this is a matter of negotiation
00:05and the issue of printing at your home or Madrasa has also come under discussion.
00:09So, first of all, please tell us quickly, what was the result of this?
00:12Did you really get arrested there?
00:14Was there any attempt?
00:15Did you manage to escape from this roof to that roof, from that house to that house?
00:20Or did you feel that they had created an environment to harass you?
00:25Yes, thank you very much, Mr. Wasim.
00:27Sir, first of all, you also know my temperament.
00:29We are not in a hurry to harass.
00:31So, it was not for harassment.
00:33Let me tell you that I had come to a decision for my dental surgery
00:38and then I decided that I will hold a press conference.
00:41My SIC office is next to Jamar-e-Zawiyah.
00:46And you know that it is the largest institution in Pakistan.
00:50During my press conference, all of a sudden, the police reach there.
00:55Yes.
00:56And all of our media brothers there, they cut it live.
01:01There, the SP, DSP, SHO, the police come there.
01:09The internal sources, of course, we belong to the same city.
01:13They were saying that arresting is the aim.
01:16And when they were asked, they didn't reply to anything.
01:20There was a large number of our party workers there.
01:25There were about 1,000-1,500 students of Jamia.
01:29And they stayed there for two and a half hours.
01:32First, they came inside the premises.
01:34Then they were told to leave the premises.
01:37All of their videos are available.
01:40I came out myself.
01:42I asked them why they had come.
01:45No one had an answer.
01:47And the police stayed there for two and a half hours.
01:50Then I managed to escape.
01:52Waseem bhai, it is an internal city.
01:55It is adjacent to Gantagar.
01:57Jamar-e-Zawiyah is in Jang Bazaar.
01:59And you know that in the old style of construction,
02:02which is before the establishment of Pakistan,
02:04the roofs of the houses are joined with the houses.
02:07So, I managed to escape that way from there.
02:10So, when they came to arrest you,
02:12when you asked them what the matter was,
02:14they did not arrest you.
02:16Sir, how could they?
02:18You saw the video.
02:20How many people were there with me?
02:22So, it was not possible for them.
02:24So, the matter of arrest happened first.
02:27And the announcement of suspension of negotiations
02:30was made later by Gauhar.
02:32I am asking this because I remember this.
02:34Irfan Siddiqui was with us a few minutes ago.
02:36He said that when PTI,
02:38when Gauhar announced the suspension of negotiations,
02:42the situation of Hamid Radha Sahib's Madrasah changed.
02:45Now PTI is saying that we are cancelling the negotiations because of this.
02:48This is also a reason.
02:50However, the announcement of suspension of negotiations was made earlier.
02:53The police went to Hamid Radha Sahib's house later.
02:55Is this the order of the incident?
02:57No, absolutely not, Mr. Waseem-ud-Dameen.
02:59It is not like that.
03:01When I went for the press conference,
03:03before that, the head of our negotiating committee,
03:06Mr. Umar Ayub,
03:08we formed a group.
03:10I told him that after the press conference,
03:12God willing, I will reach Islamabad by night.
03:15And on behalf of Gauhar,
03:17there was no call off at all.
03:20Actually, when I left Faisalabad at around 4 am,
03:25I was in travelling.
03:27Naturally, I did not have my mobile phone
03:30so that my location could not be traced.
03:33I was on a journey.
03:35When I reached Islamabad,
03:37I found out that the lawyers who met Mr. Khan in the court,
03:41they told Mr. Khan about this incident.
03:44And on that, Mr. Khan finally announced the call off.
03:48And told Mr. Gauhar to call off.
03:51So, when Mr. Gauhar came out and told the reasons,
03:54there was no mention of the press conference at your house.
03:56Did you hear the whole conversation?
03:58He may have forgotten.
04:00That is why, immediately,
04:02the people who came out later,
04:04clarified it and Mr. Khan tweeted it as well.
04:08Okay.
04:09The main reason Mr. Gauhar told,
04:11he may have forgotten.