The dismissal also vacates a stay order granted earlier. PHOTO: AFP
ISLAMABAD:
The Islamabad High Court on Thursday dismissed an application filed by the Inspector General of the Islamabad Police (IG) Tahir Alam, who had sought the quashing of a case registered against Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, cabinet ministers, and others after three people were killed during sit-ins in Islamabad’s Red Zone last year.
Justice Shaukat Aziz Siddiqui dismissed the application after Additional Attorney General (AAG) Muhammad Waqar Rana failed to appear before the court.
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A district and sessions court in September last year ordered the registration of an FIR against the prime minister and cabinet members — Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan, Defence Minister Khawaja Muhammad Asif, Railway Minister Khawaja Saad Rafique — and a former police IG over the deaths of three Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) workers.
The deaths happened as a result of clashes between the police and protesters in Islamabad on August 31, 2014.
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The order was made based on a request made by PTI, and also includes the complaint over an incident of alleged firing at PTI chief Imran Khan’s ‘Azadi bus’ during the same clashes.
Further, while the dismissal has restored the case, it has also vacated a stay order granted earlier.
Published in The Express Tribune, November 27th, 2015.
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