F.P. Report
MARDAN: Senior PTI leader and former National Assembly speaker Asad Qaiser was on Friday sent to jail in Mardan on 14-day judicial remand in connection with a May 9 case registered in Charsadda.
Asad Qaiser was rearrested on Thursday moments after he had secured bail from an anti-corruption court.
A districts and sessions judge in Mardan today sent the former NA speaker to jail on judicial remand in connection with the new case.
Yesterday, senior special judge Babar Ali Khan had granted bail on condition that Asad Qaiser submit two surety bonds of Rs80,000 each. Swabi’s anti-corruption establishment had charged the PTI leader with financial irregularities in procurement of equipment for the Gajju Khan Medical College, Swabi.
However, following his release from Swabi prison, a joint team of Swabi and Charsadda police arrested Asad Qaiser from his Marghuz residence, citing his suspected involvement in the ransacking of Charsadda Toll Plaza on the Peshawar-Islamabad Motorway during the nationwide violent protests that erupted on May 9 after PTI chief Imran Khan’s arrest in a corruption case.
