ISLAMABAD – A case under the sections of terrorism has been lodged against a couple of participants who were part of the protest staged by the opposition parties against the alleged rigging in the recent general elections.
According to the First Information Report lodged with the Secretariat police station of the capital city on Thursday, a few of the demonstrators raised slogans against the chief justice, Mian Saqib Nisar and Chief of the Army Staff, General Qamar Javed Bajwa during the protest, a day earlier.
The investigator appointed to lead the probe, Rana Mehboob detailed that currently two of the political workers have been booked in the case, Shehzada Kausar Gillani and Raja Imtiaz who belong to Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP).
Certain other unidentified individuals are also named in the complaint for which the police is on the hunt through footages.
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‘The case has been registered under section 7 of the anti-terrorism act and section 228 of Pakistan Penal code (PPC) which pertain to raising slogans against judiciary and other state institutions’ said Mehboob Ali.
According to police sources, the law enforcers have not yet decided to arrest the accused as the decision rests with the upcoming regime whether they allow the move due to such ‘inflammatory’ speeches or not.
The protest was attended by former premiers Yousaf Raza Gillani, Raja Pervaiz Ashraf, former foreign minister Khawaja Asif, former Railways minister Khawaja Saad Rafique, Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal President, Moulana Fazlur Rehman, Pashtunkhwa Milli Awami Party (PkMAP) chief Mehmood Khan Achakzai, Awami National Party leader Ghulam Ahmed Bilour and scores of loyalists from the parties who lost the general elections.
Pakistan Muslim League Nawaz President, Shehbaz Sharif did not join the demonstrators owing to ‘inclement weather’ despite the fact that his party is leading the grand opposition alliance with a strength of 64 seats in the Lower Chamber of the Parliament.
The demonstrators decried that the 11th general Elections conducted on July 25th were actually farce as the lawmakers were ‘selected’.
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They called upon the Chief Election Commissioner to tender resignation and stressed the need for a thorough probe into the elections.
In April this year, Kasur police booked 80 Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) workers including local MNA and MPA for raising anti-judiciary slogans in the wake of the disqualification of former prime minister Nawaz Sharif in the Panama Papers case.
