Another case filed in opposition to Imran Khan, his aides for flouting ban on public gathering in Pakistan

Pakistan police has registered one other case in opposition to former Prime Minister Imran Khan and high leaders of his Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf get together for flouting a ban on public gatherings within the nationwide capital, it emerged on Tuesday.

The case was registered on the Aabpara police station of Islamabad on Monday and the get together management was held answerable for violating Section 144 within the metropolis when Khan addressed a protest gathering on August 20.

Apart from 69-year-old Khan, a number of PTI leaders have been nominated within the FIR.

Khan had addressed the rally in Islamabad’s F-9 park on Saturday to indicate solidarity along with his shut aide Shahbaz Gill who was arrested on August 9 for passing remarks in opposition to the highly effective military.

According to the FIR, the police had made bulletins through loud audio system that Section 144 had been imposed within the metropolis and a ban had been imposed on rallies.

However, the rally went on, the PTI leaders turned a deaf ear to the police and led the supporters to the F-9 park, all of the whereas sloganeering on loud audio system.

Earlier within the day, a three-member bench of the Islamabad High Court, headed by Justice Mohsin Akhtar Kayani and comprising Justice Babar Sattar and Justice Miangul Hassan Aurangzeb, issued a show-cause discover to Khan and summoned him on August 31 in contempt proceedings initiated in opposition to him for passing controversial remarks in opposition to a feminine decide on the rally right here.

Khan had threatened to file circumstances in opposition to Islamabad’s inspector basic of police and deputy inspector basic of police and declared: “We won’t spare you.”

He then warned further district and periods decide Zeba Chaudhry, who had accredited two-day bodily remand of Gill’s on the request of Islamabad Police, that she would additionally face dire penalties.

Last week, Khan was booked beneath Section 7 of the Anti-Terrorism Act (punishment for acts of terrorism), in line with the copy of the primary info report.

Khan, the cricketer-turned-politician, has been concentrating on highly effective establishments, together with the Pakistan Army, since his authorities was toppled in April.

He has dared the authorities to arrest him after Interior Minister Rana Sanaullah threatened to detain him within the case.

Meanwhile, Gill’s issues weren’t over as police registered one other case in opposition to him for possessing unlicensed weapons, after his residence at Parliament Lodges within the capital was raided in his presence.

A pistol, a satellite tv for pc telephone, wallets, ATM playing cards and another paperwork had been the gadgets seized from his residence.

The political temperature within the nation has been excessive since April – when Khan was ousted from the prime minister’s workplace. Since then, he has been rallying supporters in opposition to the federal government and political issues are being recurrently taken up with courts.

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