PTI’s Ali Muhammad Khan back in custody for fifth time

Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf chief Ali Muhammad Khan was rearrested for the fifth time after being launched from the Jail in Mardan.

The PTI chief was launched from the jail after an anti-terrorism court docket (ATC) discharged him from all of the circumstances associated to Could 9 mayhem and assaults on civil and army installations. The court docket ordered the authorities to let him stroll away if he was not implicated in some other case.

Quickly after his launch, the officers of the anti-corruption institution (ACE) took him into custody in one other case from outdoors the ATC premises. 

In the meantime, speaking to journalists, the PTI chief mentioned: “After being launched by the court docket, the police needed to arrest me in one other case.”

Ali Muhammad mentioned that he was towards the “parts concerned in Could 9 incidents”.

The official, nevertheless, was of the view that the PTI chief was intimated in a case registered with the anti-corruption police. 

The PTI chief was first arrested by the Islamabad police on Could 11 beneath Part 3 of the Upkeep of Public Order Order (MPO) in reference to the violent protests and assaults on the civil and army installations final month.

The violent protests, triggered by the arrest of PTI Chairman Imran Khan from the IHC within the Al-Qadir Belief case, erupted nearly throughout the nation.

Through the days-long protests, which ended solely after Khan’s launch, enraged PTI employees allegedly attacked personal and public properties, together with army installations — the Lahore Corps Commander’s Home or Jinnah Home and the Basic Headquarters (GHQ) entrance in Rawalpindi. Not less than eight folks misplaced their lives through the violent protests.    

On June 7, the Peshawar Excessive Court docket (PHC) additionally ordered the discharge of the PTI chief, who had been arrested beneath the Upkeep of Public Order (MPO) Ordinance 1960 within the mild of the Could 9 violence.

A two-member bench comprising Justice Iijaz Anwar and Justice Syed Mohammad Attique Shah introduced the reserved verdict on Khan’s bail plea.

Through the listening to, Justice Anwar remarked that whoever holds a press convention is launched and the one who does not, will get arrested once more.

“How do such critical allegations get abolished with only a press convention,” he requested.