Thursday May 11, 2023
Hammad Azhar booked in cases registered in Lahore.
The cases were registered on the basis of police complaints.
After the arrest of Imran Khan in a corruption case, there were riots.
RAWALPINDI/LAHORE: Authorities have registered charges against senior Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) leaders following the attack on the General Headquarters (GHQ) and the ransacking of the Corps Commander's house in Lahore.
In Rawalpindi first information report was registered under 10 crime sections including 7 ATA, 353/341/440/441 PPC with RA Bazaar police station.
In the FIR, a police team deployed near Gate No. 1 of the GHQ informed that an aggressive mob of 250 to 300 people led by PTI leader Raja Basharat stormed the gate shouting anti-military slogans and tried to enter the building but were intercepted by people posted at the gate.
According to The News, a police team led by a Senior Superintendent of Police is conducting raids to nab former Punjab Law Minister and about 200 participants involved in the GHQ attack.
In Lahore, several PTI leaders were booked in FIRs registered at the provincial capital's race track and Sarwar Road police stations for the violence that took place in the city after the arrest of Imran Khan.
In a case registered at the race track police station, Azhar and 80 others were booked under the Anti-Terrorism Act (ATA) on a complaint by Station House Officer Aftab Nawaz.
The FIR states that a mob under Azhar's leadership attacked the area around Club Chowk. They were also accused of abusing the military, judiciary and sensitive institutions.
In connection with the protests in Lahore's Cantt area, a separate FIR was registered at the Sarwar Road police station on the complaint of Deputy Superintendent (DSP) Rana Ashfaq.
The case involves murder, attempt to murder and 20 other sections of the Pakistan Penal Code.
Khan and other PTI leaders were named in this case. It states that PTI leaders Mian Aslam Iqbal and Mian Mehmood ur Rasheed led the mob during the protests on the orders of PTI chief Shah Mahmood Qureshi and Farrukh Habib.
The FIR also states that Azhar, Musarrat Cheema and Jamshed Iqbal Cheema also supported looting. Apart from them, Zubair Niazi, Asad Zaman, Murad Saeed and Ali Amin Gandapur were also named in the case.
Protests erupted across Pakistan on Tuesday after Khan was arrested when he appeared before the Islamabad High Court on several pending cases since his ouster last year.
Police used tear gas and water cannons to disperse Khan's supporters in Karachi, Lahore and Faisalabad, while protesters blocked roads in the capital Islamabad, Peshawar and other cities.
Workers also damaged public property and torched police vehicles in Charsadda, Karachi, Lahore and several other cities after the party called on supporters to "shut down Pakistan" over his arrest.
