22 Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) core leaders have non-bailable arrest warrants from a Lahore anti-terrorism court (ATC) in connection with the May 9 riot case.
arrest warrants for PTI leaders issued: In the case involving the May 9 rioting, the police begged the ATC to issue non-bailable arrest warrants for the 22 PTI leaders. During the hearing today, the anti-terrorism court accepted the plea and issued arrest warrants.
The nominated PTI leaders in the May 9 riots case include Shah Mahmood Qureshi, Fawad Chaudhry, Hammad Azhar, Murad Saeed, Azam Swati, Ali Amin Gandapur, Jamshed Iqbal Cheema, Musarrat Jamshed Cheema, Mian Aslam Iqbal, Hassaan Niazi, Zubair Niazi, Imtiaz Sheikh, Andleeb Abbas, Karamat Khokhar, Ghulam Abbas, Ali Abbas, Uzma Bibi and Haleema Bibi.
According to the police, on May 9 the accused reportedly participated in vandalism and arson. It also stated that despite police efforts to apprehend them, they remained hidden. Police requested that their non-bailable arrest warrants be issued.
An anti-terrorism court (ATC) in Lahore had earlier in the day extended Khadija Shah’s judicial detention in the Jinnah House attack case.
Ms. Shah and others were presented before the ATC judge after his judicial remand expired today. The judge ordered police to file a challan in the case while prolonging her judicial remand for a further 14 days.
Daughter of former finance minister Dr. Salman Shah and Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) activist Ms. Shah is presently detained on judicial remand.
The 41 individuals from the UK, US, and Canada who were actively involved in causing and facilitating the May 9 disturbances were named by the investigators last month.
The authorities found 41 individuals who incited and assisted the rioters in other nations, including the UK, US, and Canada, making progress in their probe into the May 9 riots.
“Political Party Suspects Linked to Anti-State Acts Arrested, Including Overseas Connections”
According to sources, the majority of suspects were connected to a political party, including its officers and employees. Through images and videos in which they screamed anti-Pakistani slogans and encouraged people to engage in anti-state acts, the suspects were identified.
Three of the 41 suspects were UK political party office holders, and 12 of them lived in London and were frequently spotted near Avenfield House.
Eight party officials who are also its backers and financiers were among the suspects in Canada. During the government ministers’ visits to the US and Canada, one Ottawa office bearer was caught up in a plot to hurl shoes at them.
One of the six suspects was revealed to be a representative of the political party’s New York chapter in the United States, while the other five people are activists.
After the former prime minister and leader of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf was taken into custody at the Islamabad High Court (IHC), violent confrontations broke out around Pakistan.