The case has been registered on the complaint of SHO Police station Sadar Muzaffargarh Zaki Rehan. However no arrest was made. Sources said that a number of teams are being organised to arrest all the accused at night. Similarly, a number of arrest were made in Multan , Khanewal, Vehari, Lodhran, Mailsi, Mian Chunnu, Chichawatni,Sahiwal, Bahawalpur, Bahawalnagar, Rahimyarkhan, Sadiqabad, Liaquatpur, Ahmedpur east, Muzaffargarh, Dera Ghazi Khan , Rajanpur, Rojhan, Jampur, Layyah, Bhakkar and Kabirwala.
The Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf party on Wednesday announced that it will challenge in the Supreme Court the ruling of the Islamabad High Court which termed the arrest of its chief and former prime minister Imran Khan as legal, according to a media report.
Khan, 70, was arrested by the paramilitary Rangers in a corruption case from the IHC and bundled into a prison van, sparking massive protests across the country by supporters of his PTI party.
Following Khan’s arrest, PTI vice chairman Shah Mehmood Qureshi summoned an emergency meeting of the seven-member committee to review the situation and devise a comprehensive strategy to secure the safe and early release of the party chair, media reported.
Qureshi interacted with the committee members Senators Saifullah Khan Nyazee, Azam Swati, Ijaz Chaudhry, Murad Saeed, Ali Amin Khan Gandapur, and Hassan Niazi.
“PTI will challenge the IHC’s decision to term party chief Imran Khan’s arrest by the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) ‘legal’ before the Supreme Court today (Wednesday),” he was quoted as saying in the report.
Qureshi, a former foreign minister, maintained that the demand for Khan’s release is a reasonable and legitimate demand.Khan will be presented before the accountability court on Wednesday, a NAB source said.
Moreover, terming the Al-Qadir Trust case a “dirty political case” and a “revenge plot,” the PTI vice chairman asserted: “We will fight it politically and legally.”
He further added that PTI will hold peaceful but vigorous protests across the country to ensure the release of its chairman as soon as possible, the Geo news report said.
He also noted that the IHC was raided to arrest Khan despite the fact that the PTI chairman had offered voluntary arrest in his statement before appearing in court.
“Arrest of Imran Khan is fascism and it is condemnable to attack the Islamabad High Court during biometrics and injure lawyers,” he remarked and made an appeal to the chief justice of IHC to issue an order for his immediate recovery and appearance in the court.
Khan’s party has claimed that at least four people were killed and over a dozen injured in different parts of the country in violent clashes between the security forces and PTI supporters.
On Tuesday, a NAB official said that Khan has been arrested in the case related to Al-Qadir Trust, owned by the PTI chairman and his wife Bushra Bibi, which is about the setting up of Al-Qadir University for Sufism in the 2019 Sohawa area of Jhelum district of Punjab.
Khan’s arrest warrant, issued on May 1, said that he was accused of corruption and corrupt practice.
The anti-graft watchdog has also justified the PTI chief’s arrest with the help of Rangers from inside the court premises on Tuesday and termed it legal and purely according to the NAB laws.
The Pakistan army says May 9 – the day protests erupted after Khan was arrested – “will be remembered as a dark chapter” in the country’s history.
It said in a statement that the protests were “organised attacks” against military installations and anti-army slogans were raised.
“What the eternal enemy of the country could achieve for the last seventy-five years, this group, disguised in a political cloak, has done just for sheer lust of power,” the statement said.
After Khan, leader of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI), was arrested, his supporters stormed the streets across Pakistan. Footage showed PTI workers ransacking the residence of a top military commander in Lahore and raiding one of the outer gates of the General Headquarters of Pakistan army in Rawalpindi.
“Any further attack on the army, including all law enforcement agencies, military and state installations and properties will be retaliated severely against the group that wants to push Pakistan into a civil war and has repeatedly attacked them
