*ISLAMABAD – **New developments reported over arrest of Hassan Khan Niazi,son of Hafeezullah Niazi in PIC attack.*
*The Lahore police raided a farmhouse owned by Prime Minister Imran Khan’snephew Hassaan Niazi on Saturday morning.*
This was the second raid conducted to arrest the lawyer. His house inLahore was raided on Friday but Hassaan wasn’t home. He wasn’t there duringthe raid on the Raiwind farmhouse either.
The police say they conducted the raid after locating him using mobile dataand intelligence. But Hassaan fled before the raid, they said.
He has been named in the case against lawyers who attacked the PunjabInstitute of Cardiology on December 11. He has been specifically implicatedin the case involving the torching of a police van.
Footage went viral of Hassaan participating in the violent lawyers’ marchon the Punjab Institute of Cardiology during which at least three patientsdied, 25 doctors were injured and infrastructure was destroyed.
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Hassaan is the son of Hafeezullah Niazi. He wasn’t initially named in theFIR registered against over 200 lawyers on Thursday but his name has nowbeen added.
Dr Firdous Ashiq Awan, the spokesperson for the federal government, said onThursday that PM Khan believes in rule of law and not even his nephew isabove the law.
She told reporters in Islamabad that, “His nephew or anyone else whoever iswanted by the law… the law will follow him.”
