ISLAMABAD: An anti-terrorism court (ATC) issued perpetual warrants on Friday for arresting chairman of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Imran Khan and chief of the Pakistan Awami Tehreek (PAT) Dr Tahirul Qadri.
The warrants were issued after police submitted a report stating that the suspects could not be arrested despite declaring both accused proclaimed offenders in the case of attack on former
SSP Junejo.
The issuance of arrest warrants meant that the case would become dormant and revive only when the suspects were arrested.
The incompetence of investigators and prosecutors can be gauged from the fact that the PTI chairman is regularly appearing in the Supreme Court to attend the Panamagate case while the PAT chief is also not entirely untraceable.
Previously, the ATC allowed an application filed by the capital police which sought initiating the process of declaring both accused as proclaimed offenders after the SHO of the Secretariat police station informed the court that the suspects could not be located for making arrests.