Islmabad Police have registered cases against more than 55 MLAs and leaders under serious sections in the wake of the recent protests over the health of the founder of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) and the issue of medical facilities in jail.
The police of the federal capital have registered an FIR against dozens of MNAs of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) for creating a ruckus and taking the law into their hands during the protests in the Parliament House and the Red Zone.
The case has been registered at the Islamabad Police Station Secretariat.
The case includes provisions of Section 7-ATA of the Anti-Terrorism Act including firing, tearing the uniform of police personnel, interfering with government vehicles and vandalism.
The key leaders and parliamentarians named in the case include Iqbal Afridi (MNA), Shafqat Mian (MNA), Malik Hassan (MPA), Rai Ahsan Raza (MPA), Muhammad Akram (MPA),Asad Zaman Cheema (MPA)
Syed Rifaat Shah (MPA), Atiq Rashid (MPA), Hassan Niazi and other leaders.
This action has come to light when PTI MPs were staging a sit-in at Parliament House and Parliament Lodges demanding the transfer of the PTI founder to a hospital for eye treatment.
The police had closed both the gates of Parliament, due to which the MNAs were trapped inside. The government says that breaking the law and raising slogans against the state cannot be allowed in the name of protest.
The PTI leadership has called the case “political vendetta” and said that they were exercising their constitutional right to peaceful protest.
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