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ISLAMABAD: On Monday, the Islamabad High Court (IHC) suspends the first information reports (FIRs) filed in Mochko and Lasbela against Sheikh Rashid Ahmed, the leader of the Awami Muslim League (AML) and a former interior minister.
Rashid petitioned Justice Tariq Mehmood Jahangiri to halt his transportation to Karachi and to declare the police in contempt of court.
The attorney for the AML chief contended that even though the court had stopped further action on the Aabpara police station’s summons, the police had nonetheless opened a case and made an arrest based on the same application.
The attorney informed the court about another FIR against Sheikh Rashid, filed in Mochko, Karachi. The court enquired about how the case had been registered in the port city, when the statement was provided at the Polyclinic Hospital in Islamabad.
The court forbade the police from pursuing the cases filed against Sheikh Rashid in Mochko, Karachi, and Lasbela, Balochistan.
Additionally, the IHC sent letters to the attorney general, advocate general, and bar councils suspending the FIRs filed in Mochko and Lasbela against the former minister.
During the hearing, the judge expressed confusion as to how the same incident could result in FIRs filed in various cities, including a third FIR in Murree, according to the attorney.
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According to the law, when an arrest is made in one case, it is also made in others, Justice Jahangiri said.
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The court received information from the attorney that someone physically detained Rashid for six hours, bound him to a chair at an undisclosed location, and subjected him to physical assault and political questioning.
The judge reminded the attorney that “you had filed terrorism cases against the information secretary and the PTV MD and now the same thing is happening against you” and questioned where “this series will finish.”
He continued imagining what would happen if the police took the female information secretary into custody.
Sheikh Rashid was the subject of a prosecution last week in Karachi for making “immoral” statements about Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto Zardari.
Sources claim that a Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) employee filed the case at the Mochko police station in response to the former minister’s remarks on the party chairman.
According to sources, a police squad will take the AML chief into prison and transfer him to Karachi on Saturday.
Earlier, the Islamabad police detained Sheikh Rashid during a late-night search on his private housing society home.
“The police detained the former minister for publicly accusing Asif Ali Zardari, the PPP Co-Chairman and former President, of masterminding a plot to kill Imran Khan, the PTI Chairman.”
“An Islamabad court gave Sheikh Rashid a two-day police hold order, and then the police requested the court to extend the AML chief’s physical remand.”
“After rejecting the police motion, the court sent the senior politician on a 10-day judicial remand to Rawalpindi’s Adiala Jail.”