Ex-Pak foreign minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi close aide of ex-PM Imran Khan arrested in Islamabad,
Ex-Pak foreign minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi close aide of ex-PM Imran Khan arrested in Islamabad,
Pakistan is reeling through tough times. Following the arrest of ex-PM.Imran Khan
over multiple corruption cases
and remanded to the custody of a Pakistani anti-corruption agency for eight days in connection with the Al-Qadir Trust case.
Now it is learnt that ex-Pak FM Shah Mehmood Qureshi has courted arrest for being part of the anti-corruption agency’s ‘crack down’ on the leadership of the PakistanTehreek-e-Insaaf party led by Imran Khan.
Reportedly, Imran Khan’s brought unrest in Pakistan and situation turned violent.
Qureshi’s arrest was part of the anti-corruption agency’s ‘crack down’ on the leadership of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf party led by Imran Khan, 70.
Besides Qureshi, authorities also detained Asad Umar, the PTI’s secretary-general. Both are in a police station in the federal capital. As per reports, cops are trying to arrest senior PTI leader Fawad Chaudhry as well.
The court has approved eight days of physical remand of Imran Khan.
Shortly before that another court indicted him in the ‘Toshakhana’ corruption case – a separate matter that sees him accused of illegally selling state gifts received during his time as PM (2018-22) and stored in a national treasury.
Set up in 1974, the Toshakhana is a department that stores precious gifts given to Pak heads of state, parliamentarians, bureaucrats, and officials.
Khan was sent to the custody of the National Accountability Bureau in the Al-Qadir Trust case, in which he is accused of looting 50 billion Pakistani rupees.
The NAB sought custody of Khan for 14 days and the court initially reserved its verdict, only to announce a U-turn and send the ex-PM to the agency.
Khan was arrested Tuesday and that was followed by massive protests across Pakistan, with his followers storming police stations and clashing with security forces. At least four deaths have been reported so far amid the fighting.
The Army has been deployed in Pakistan and nearly 1,000 people have been arrested in the province of Punjab, Pak’s most populous, police told news agency AFP. “Police teams arrested 945 law breakers and miscreants…” officials said, adding 130 officials had been injured in the violence.
News input KV Raman
