PML-N leader held for threatening PTI chairman

PM’s special assistant, ex-minister among 24 booked on terror charges

HAFIZABAD:

Police have arrested a former vice chairman of the district council, Rai Qamaruz Zaman, on charges of threatening to kill former prime Imran Khan during a PML-N workers' convention in Hafizabad.

The police registered a case against more than 24 people, including the Prime Minister's Special Assistant Atta Tarar, former federal health minister Saira Afzal Tarar and PML-N district president Mohammad Bakhsh Tarar

PTI Hafizabad district president Imran Abbas Bhatti lodged the case in the city police station.

He stated in the FIR that Rai Qamar had said in his speech that Khan should be killed. Speaking in the presence of Ata Tarar, Saira Tarar, he allegedly said he would shoot Khan whenever the leaders ordered him. He had reportedly said that he had no regrets about the former prime minister’s removal.

He had also said that he wanted to hire a lawyer for the man who had shot the PTI chairman and he also would like to meet him.

The case was registered under the Anti-Terrorism Act against the PML-N leaders who were allegedly present on the occasion and 20 other unidentified suspects.

Later, PML-N MPA Dr Muzaffar Ali Sheikh, former Tehsil Nazim Rai Jahangir Ali Kharal, former Nazim Amjad Parvez Chatha, former Nazim Shoaib Tarar, former Tehsil Naib Nazim Abid Ehsan Chatha, former-MNA Mian Shahdahsin Bhatti, Former Nazim Zulfikar Chand Bhawan, Muhammad Zaman Bhawan, Roy Javed Iqbal, Khalid Butt, Yusuf Somi, Riyaz Ahmed Tarar, Basharat Raza Butt, Hanif Toorand Muhammad Amin Ansari were named among the suspects in the case.

Meanwhile, Rai Qamar was presented in the court of the local magistrate, who remanded him for a day.

The police will present the suspect in the Gujranwala Anti-Terrorism Court for remand.

The local police also reportedly carried out raids to arrest the other suspects named in the FIR.

Published in The Express Tribune, November 7^th, 2022.