Lahore Anti-Terrorism Court (ATC) on Temporary bail approved on Friday of top leaders of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) in Punjab one day after issuance without collateral arrest guarantees for them over numerous allegations, including alleged violations of Section 144 and attacks on Law enforcement on May 25 is the day PTI workers went to Islamabad.
According to a court order issued on Thursday, investigator Muhammad Salim requested the extradition of of unsecured arrest guarantees for PTI leaders Mian Akram Usman, Muhammad Zubair Khan Niazi, Imtiaz Mehmood Sheikh, Mian Mehmood ur Rashid, Mian Shafkat Mehmood, Malik Nadeem Abbas, Murad Raas, Mian Aslam Iqbal, Yasser Gilani, Dr. Yasmine Rashid, Hammad Azhar, Andlib Abbas and Ijaz Chaudhry.
Orders searched on grounds of their “deliberate concealment in order avoid them arrest and them arrest is necessary for completion of investigation”.
Subsequently, the court of Judge Abher Gul Khan issued a warrant.
By Friday, all PTI leaders have been named. in business profits in court and applied for intermediate deposit. The court granted their requests and forbade the police to detain them until 17 June.
Last month, the Punjab police registered total of 42 criminal cases against PTI senior managers and workers for alleged campaigning in in aftermath of long march.
It said that three police officers were tortured. in line of duty while 100 others were wounded, three of them seriously in alleged attacks by PTI workers. Of them 34 personnel were injured in Lahore, 48 in Attock and nine in Sargodha, Mianwali, Rawalpindi, Jhelum and other cities.
Previously to the police official said Dawn that 12 cases were registered in Lahore five in Sialkot, four pieces in Rawalpindi and Sargodha, three in Mianwali and two in Attock and Jhelum, and one FIR has been filed in Chakval.
“Pakistan is turning into a fascist police state”
AT media speak outside court after posting bail, Hammad Azhar charged PML-N Vice President Maryam Nawaz and Interior Minister Rana Sanaullah of turning the country into a “fascist police state”.
“Today we are here in front of terrorism court, but none of us are terrorists,” he said. — people there are those who took to the streets for peaceful protest on May 25th.
Azhar claimed that Maryam and Sanaulla had passed”special orders to include charges of terrorism” in Ate. “Import government registers FIR today against those who came out to protest peacefully… which is our constitutional and legal right.
“Rana Sanaullah and Maryam want make a fascist police state out of it, so that there is no one can raise their voice against their greed for power,” he said.
“Today I want ask: where is the law and the Constitution?
PTI leader added what “reality behind of death of Maqsoud “Chaprasi” and Dr. Rizwan (FIA Investigator) soon become obvious.” “We’ll find out whether their deaths were natural or suicidal.
Azadi Marsh
In a day of In March Azadi, May 25, clashes were reported between PTI activists and police on Liberty Chowk Street in Lahore, when law enforcement officers resorted to firing tear gas. in attempt clear roads for movement that was blocked by demonstrators on fresh directive from party chief to file protests in relevant areas after protesters threw stones on police personnel refusing clear roads.
When PTI Lahore gathered its workers at Bhatti Chowk to remove the barriers erected in in area to block their way to Islamabad, the police used tear gas to disperse them and arrested over 10 PTI employees. About 212 others party activists were chosen up from another city areas.
During the throw-in former federal minister Hammad Azhar is injured in “straight attack”from the police. Meanwhile, the windshield of former Punjab health minister Yasmine Rashid vehicle was also broken.
