ISLAMABAD: An anti-terrorism court (ATC) on Thursday granted bail to leaders of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Asad Umar, Shah Mehmood Qureshi, Shafqat Mehmood, Arif Alvi and Raja Khurram Nawaz in the Parliament and Pakistan Television (PTV) cases.
Shireen Mazari is now exonerated from the case in which she was not even nominated. Her name wasn’t even on the supplementary charge sheet.
Imran Khan had been declared a proclaimed offender in the SSP Asmatullah Junejo case. The police officer was beaten up by protesters at the Constitution Avenue, Islamabad on September 1, 2014, less than 24 hours into his first day on the job.
Hundreds of protesters allegedly belonging to the PTI and PAT had also briefly seized the state broadcaster on September 1, 2014 at a time when the country was under intense political crisis spearheaded by Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf chief Imran Khan, Pakistan Awami Tehreek chief Tahirul Qadri and others.
Protesters stormed into the state broadcaster causing disruption in the transmission of PTV news channel and PTV World for a short period of time. The buildings were later cleared by the Pakistan Army.
An FIR was registered followed by a complaint by Secretariat Police Station House Officer (SHO) Inspector Mehboob Ahmed, who in his application, said that “protesters attacked the government building after snatching weapons from police officials.”
