Two arrested for putting up Raheel banners
MOP leaders get protective bail; journalist urges high treason case against poster party
MOP leaders get protective bail; journalist urges high treason case against poster party. PHOTO: AFP
ISLAMABAD:
Police on Friday arrested two persons for allegedly putting up controversial banners calling for the imposition of martial law in the country.
A senior police official told The Express Tribune that the suspects were identified as Arshad Salamat and Faheem. The official, who requested not to be named, said the suspects put up banners in some parts of the federal capital.
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“They are not members or office-bearers of the Move on Pakistan; rather they are hired workers,” said the official.
The arrests came a day after the police registered a case against unknown persons for putting up banners in Islamabad.
Although police have arrested two persons, who acted as hired workers and, as a police official said, may have been unaware of the content of the banners, three office-bearers of the Move on Pakistan party appeared before the Islamabad High Court and obtained a protective bail.
Those who obtained the bail included MOP chairman Mohammad Kamran, Ali Raza and Asif Iqbal. According to the police, that they were the prime suspects in the case.
The petitioners filed transitory bail applications after police in the federal capital registered a case on July 14 against “unidentified men” who put up banners calling for the army chief to impose martial law in the country.
The Secretariat police had registered a case under sections 124-A (sedition), 120-B (punishment of criminal conspiracy), 505-II (statements conducing to public mischief) and 34 (common intention) of the Pakistan Penal Code against unidentified men for inciting people against the government.
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Meanwhile, the issue of banners put up by a little-known political party in major cities across the country urging Chief of Army Staff Gen Raheel Sharif to impose martial law and form a government of technocrats landed in the Supreme Court on Friday.
Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists (PFUJ)’s former president Afzal Butt filed a petition in the apex court, praying it to direct the federal government to register a high treason case against the ‘Move on Pakistan’ (MOP) chief and its other party leaders.
The petition moved through his counsel Ikram Chaudhry has been filed under Article 184(3) of the constitution, making the law ministry, the interior ministry, Move on Pakistan president Muhammad Kamran, Awami Muslim League head Sheikh Rashid and two TV anchors as respondents.
Published in The Express Tribune, July 16th, 2016.
Police on Friday arrested two persons for allegedly putting up controversial banners calling for the imposition of martial law in the country.
A senior police official told The Express Tribune that the suspects were identified as Arshad Salamat and Faheem. The official, who requested not to be named, said the suspects put up banners in some parts of the federal capital.
US ducks question on Raheel’s extension
“They are not members or office-bearers of the Move on Pakistan; rather they are hired workers,” said the official.
The arrests came a day after the police registered a case against unknown persons for putting up banners in Islamabad.
Although police have arrested two persons, who acted as hired workers and, as a police official said, may have been unaware of the content of the banners, three office-bearers of the Move on Pakistan party appeared before the Islamabad High Court and obtained a protective bail.
Those who obtained the bail included MOP chairman Mohammad Kamran, Ali Raza and Asif Iqbal. According to the police, that they were the prime suspects in the case.
The petitioners filed transitory bail applications after police in the federal capital registered a case on July 14 against “unidentified men” who put up banners calling for the army chief to impose martial law in the country.
The Secretariat police had registered a case under sections 124-A (sedition), 120-B (punishment of criminal conspiracy), 505-II (statements conducing to public mischief) and 34 (common intention) of the Pakistan Penal Code against unidentified men for inciting people against the government.
Jibran Nasir takes it upon himself to remove military coup banners
Meanwhile, the issue of banners put up by a little-known political party in major cities across the country urging Chief of Army Staff Gen Raheel Sharif to impose martial law and form a government of technocrats landed in the Supreme Court on Friday.
Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists (PFUJ)’s former president Afzal Butt filed a petition in the apex court, praying it to direct the federal government to register a high treason case against the ‘Move on Pakistan’ (MOP) chief and its other party leaders.
The petition moved through his counsel Ikram Chaudhry has been filed under Article 184(3) of the constitution, making the law ministry, the interior ministry, Move on Pakistan president Muhammad Kamran, Awami Muslim League head Sheikh Rashid and two TV anchors as respondents.
Published in The Express Tribune, July 16th, 2016.