F.P. Report
RAWALPINDI: Awami Muslim League chief and former interior minister Sheikh Rashid Ahmed was arrested from Rawalpindi on Tuesday.
The police arrested Sheikh Rashid after an anti-terrorism court cancelled his bail in connection with a case relating to May 9 violence.
A case of blocking road and setting fire public property was registered against the AML chief at New Town Police Station.
Earlier in the day, an anti-terrorism court (ATC) in Rawalpindi granted bails to Awami Muslim League (AML) chief Sheikh Rashid, his nephew Rashid Shafiq and others in the GHQ attack case.
Both Rashid and Shafiq were wanted in 13 cases registered in connection with the incidents of violence of May 9.
The court had reserved the verdict in the case yesterday.
Yesterday, the court had reserved its verdict on the police’s plea, seeking arrests of Awami Muslim League (AML) chief Sheikh Rashid, his nephew Rashid Shafiq and others in the case.
Earlier, Abdur Razzaq Advocate, counsel for Rasheed, and the government’s lawyer concluded their arguments in the case.
Later, talking to the media outside the court, AML chief said that 19 cases had been registered against him.
He expressed the hope that the people of his constituency by voting for him in the elections would take revenge on the last coalition government, which was responsible for price hike and unemployment in the country.
Rasheed said neither did he utter a word against anybody in the past nor would he do so in the future. “I have left my case to The Almighty Allah.”
