- PTI leader says all “illegal cases” have got bail.
- Qaiser says that Wazir Abdul Karim was taken into custody.
- Police failed to arrest me, says former NA speaker
Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) leader Asad Qaiser has claimed that police tried to arrest him from the Peshawar High Court (PHC) despite being granted “bail” in all cases registered against him after the May 9 violence. Did.
“The police failed to arrest me,” he said in a statement on Tuesday.
Qaiser, who was the speaker of the National Assembly during the previous PTI-led government, said party leader Wazir Abdul Karim Khan has been taken into custody.
A close aide of PTI chairman Imran Khan said he has been attending the court for hearing all “illegal” cases.
“I have got bail in all the cases registered against me,” he said. He said that when he came for the court hearing, the police tried to arrest him.
A day earlier, the Islamabad High Court (IHC) granted interim bail to Qaiser till July 13 in a case related to the May 9 violent protests.
Riots broke out almost across the country following the arrest of the PTI chief in the £190 million Al-Qadir Trust case on 9 May, killing at least eight people and injuring many others, prompting authorities to arrest thousands of PTIs. The workers had to be arrested. ,
During the protests, miscreants attacked civilian and military installations, including the Corps Commander’s House (Jinnah House) in Lahore Cantt and the General Headquarters (GHQ) in Rawalpindi.
The Army has called May 9 a “black day” and decided to prosecute the protesters under the Army Act, with Chief of Army Staff General Asim Munir saying that the legal process in this regard has already begun.
A case was registered against the former NA speaker over the violent protests that took place on May 9 at Islamabad’s Sangjani police station.
On 21 June, the PHC granted transit bail to Kaiser till 3 July in the case.
