NA speaker orders production of PTI MP

The National Assembly speaker, Sardar Ayaz Sadiq, has issued a production order for a PTI backed lawmaker, Haji Imtiaz Ahmed, who is currently detained in connection with a corruption case.

The speaker has directed the Punjab Police to bring Ahmed to the assembly session, commencing from tomorrow (Monday).

Imtiaz Ahmed is to be handed over to the Sergeant-at-Arms in the assembly. The speaker considers Ahmed's attendance at the assembly session mandatory, said the production order.

Punjab's anti-corruption watchdog on August 8 rearrested "missing" PTI MNA, Haji Imtiaz Ahmed, from Multan airport.

In a statement, an Anti-Corruption Establishment (ACE) spokesperson said the lawmaker was trying to board a flight for Qatar when he was arrested at the Multan airport.

The whereabouts of the lawmaker had been unknown since armed men attacked a convoy on the new Shadiwal Road near Gujranwala and freed him from ACE's custody on July 31. The ACE arrested him for allegedly receiving a Rs2 million commission in a development scheme.

According to a report, a ACE team was bringing him back to Gujranwala from Mianwali - where he was taken for the recovery of the commission money - when around a dozen armed men in three vehicles intercepted the official vehicle and opened indiscriminate fire.

The ACE officials left the vehicle to find shelter as the armed men took away the MNA. After the "kidnapping" of their party members, PTI lawmakers raised the matter in the parliament and also moved the court for his safe recovery.

In a recent session of the National Assembly, Leader of the Opposition Omar Ayub Khan said Mr Ahmed had been declared "a forcefully disappeared person".