Islamabad Police file cases against 70 PPP workers including Senator Khokhar

F.P. Report

ISLAMABAD: Police have filed case against 70 workers of Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) including Senator Mustafa Nawaz Khokhar and Raja Shakil Abbasi on Thursday at Secretariat police station.

According to local media reports, the Islamabad police will contact Senate Chairman Sadiq Sanjrani and Mustafa Nawaz Khokhar is likely to be arrested after the approval from the chairman.

It has been mentioned in the First Information Report (FIR) that PPP workers Wednesday reached NADRA Chowk from Aabpara raising derogatory slogans against the government and National Accountability Bureau (NAB).

When the area magistrate asked the crowd to disperse under Section 144, the PPP workers attacked the police and reached outside the NAB office after breaking barriers. Nine police officials and a journalist got injured as a result.

20 aggressors were nabbed by the authorities, however, 50 managed to escape including Mustafa Nawaz Khokhar and Raja Shakil Abbasi.

It is pertinent here to mention that the NAB had summoned Bilawal Bhutto Zardari and Asif Ali Zardari to hand over a questionnaire comprising 124 questions to interrogate them in the fake bank accounts case.