Badmouthing CJP: Islamabad police get Sindh govt’s nod to arrest Faisal Abidi

Karachi police directed to assist the visiting police party to bring to book ex-PPP senator

The Sindh government has granted permission to Islamabad police to arrest former senator Faisal Raza Abidi days after the former Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) leader was booked for making ‘insulting and threatening’ remarks against Chief Justice Mian Saqib Nisar.

On September 20, a first information report (FIR) was registered against Abidi at the Secretariat police station in Islamabad after the Supreme Court’s public relations officer Shahid Hussain submitted a complaint. The ex-senator was booked for insulting, defaming and intimidating the judiciary.

The Sindh home ministry has issued a written order on Friday, directing the Karachi police to assist an Islamabad police team, reportedly present in the Sindh capital, to arrest Abidi, Express News reported.



The former PPP leader made the remarks during an interview with a web-based platform Naya Pakistan, which was posted online on July 2. In the interview, the former Senator called Chief Justice Nisar a “traitor” because he took oath under the PCO [Provisional Constitution Order].

“During the contempt of court case against me, I told this judge that he was a traitor because he took oath under PCO,” Abidi said in the interview, adding that he had also filed a reference against the top judge in the Supreme Judicial Council.

In April, the Supreme Court ordered police to produce former senator Abidi before the court for using derogatory language against the country’s top judge.