ISLAMABAD – Terrorism case has been lodged against PPP leaders who werepart of the protest staged by the opposition parties against the allegedrigging in the recent general elections.
According to the First Information Report lodged with the Secretariatpolice station of the capital city on Thursday, a few of the demonstratorsraised slogans against the chief justice, Mian Saqib Nisar and Chief of theArmy Staff, General Qamar Javed Bajwa during the protest, a day earlier.
The investigator appointed to lead the probe, Rana Mehboob detailed thatonly two of the political workers have been booked in the case, ShehzadaKausar Gillani and Raja Imtiaz who belong to Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP).
Certain other unidentified individuals are also named in the complaint forwhich the police is investigating through footages available.
‘The case has been registered under section 7 of the anti-terrorism act andsection 228 of Pakistan Penal code (PPC) which pertain to raising slogansagainst judiciary and other state institutions’ said Mehboob Ali.
According to police sources, the law enforcers have not yet decided toarrest the accused as the decision rests with the upcoming regime whetherthey allow the move due to such ‘inflammatory’ speeches or not.
The protest was attended by former premiers Yousaf Raza Gillani, RajaPervaiz Ashraf, former foreign minister Khawaja Asif, former Railwaysminister Khawaja Saad Rafique, Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal President, MoulanaFazlur Rehman, Pashtunkhwa Milli Awami Party (PkMAP) chief MehmoodKhan Achakzai, Awami National Party leader Ghulam Ahmed Bilour and scoresof loyalists from the parties who lost the general elections.