Ali Amin Gandapur. PHOTO: FILE
NOWSHERA/ DI KHAN: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) minister Ali Amin Gandapur surrendered to the police Monday night.
DI Khan police officials had laid siege to his residence, the Gandapur Cottage, in Hethala area of Kulachi town earlier in the day. The siege lasted three hours, but Gandapur still managed to escape through the back door of his house.
According to police, vote count was under way in Hemath Adda polling station on Sunday when Gandapur, his brother Umar (a candidate for tehsil nazim) and his armed supporters arrived on the scene, picked up the ballot boxes and took off with them in the minister’s car.
DI Khan DPO Sadiq Hussain Baloch had told the media that the police were trying to keep the situation calm in DI Khan. “We wish that Ali Amin Gandapur would surrender himself.”
During the siege, PTI activists had gathered in the vicinity in large numbers. They shouted slogans in favour of their party minister.
Not a murder suspect
Awami National Party (ANP) General Secretary Mian Iftikhar Hussain’s name will be removed from the murder FIR, said DIG Mardan Saeed Wazir. Police had arrested Mian Iftikhar on Sunday after an FIR was filed against him in the wake of the death of a PTI activist.
However, the activist’s father Monday told the court that he was pressured into registering a case against the ANP leader.
DIG Wazir said the father’s statement had changed the dynamics of the case.
Published in The Express Tribune, June 2nd, 2015.
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