JIT allowed to quiz, arrest PTI chief in May 9 attacks case

[FOOLS_NIGHTMARE]

• Team led by JIT head to visit Attock jail on Friday
• Imran’s arrest to be documented at the jail, no transfer planned
• Babar Awan says party chairman’s cell not changed, despite assurances

LAHORE: An anti-terrorism court (ATC) on Wednesday allowed a joint investigation team (JIT) to interrogate and arrest incarcerated PTI Chairman Imran Khan in the case of the attack on the corps commander’s house in Lahore during May 9 riots.

The JIT’s convenor, the DIG (Investigation) Lahore, filed an application with the administrative judge of the ATC seeking permission to interrogate and arrest the former prime minister in FIR No 96/2023 registered by Sarwar Road police regarding the attack on Jinnah House, which also serves as the residence of the corps commander.

The head of the joint investigation team said the suspect, Mr Khan, had been convicted by an Islamabad sessions court and is currently confined in Attock jail, serving his sentence in the Toshakhana case.

He said the interrogation of the suspect, which would lead to his subsequent arrest, was required in the Jinnah House attack case. He requested the judge to grant permission to interrogate and arrest the suspect who is detained in Attock jail.

Judge Ejaz Ahmad Buttar allowed the application and granted permission to the JIT to interrogate and arrest Mr Khan in the May 9 case.

Earlier, on Aug 11, the judge dismissed the pre-arrest bail of the PTI chairman in seven cases registered for his alleged involvement in the May 9 riots, including the attack on the corps commander’s residence.

A counsel for Mr Khan had requested the court to excuse the suspect from personal appearance, citing his confinement in the jail, which was beyond his control.

However, the judge said Mr Khan’s counsel failed to point out any specific legal provision upon which an exemption from personal attendance in a pre-arrest bail case can be granted after imprisonment.

The judge considered that the conviction was not an explanation for adjournment with the order of exemption from personal appearance, rather it was a ground for dismissal of bail if the case was heard on merits.

The judge ruled that Mr Khan’s application was not maintainable, and bail petitions in all cases were dismissed with similar observations.

The other cases include attacks on Askari Tower in Gulberg, Shadman police station, PML-N’s party office in Model Town, and the torching of a container at Kalma Chowk.

JIT to visit Attock jail

Following court permission, a police team led by JIT head DIG Investigation Lahore Imran Kishwar will go to Attock jail for the interrogation and arrest of Mr Khan in the Jinnah House attack case.

Mr Kishwar confirmed to Dawn that the JIT would visit Attock Jail on the upcoming Friday.

Mr Kishwar stated that the JIT submitted a request to Punjab Prisons IG Mian Farooq Nazir to grant access to the police for interrogating the former prime minister in Attock jail.

Regarding a specific question about Mr Khan’s arrest, the DIG made it clear that the Lahore police would not shift the accused person from Attock jail to Lahore; instead, they would simply document his arrest in the police records at the jail.

Babar Awan’s claim

Separately, former federal minister and member of the PTI chairman’s legal team, Babar Awan, claimed that despite assurances from jail authorities, the detained former premier’s cell has not been changed so far.

He made these remarks while speaking to newsmen outside Attock jail on Wednesday.

The Islamabad High Court (IHC) instructed the administration of Attock jail on Wednesday to ensure a meeting between Mr Awan and the former prime minister.

This directive came during the hearing of an appeal by the PTI chairman against his conviction in the Toshakhana case.

Mr Awan added that “facilities” was an unknown word for Mr Khan. Mr Awan said that “the morale of the detained former prime minister is higher than the Himalayas”.

JIT allowed to quiz, arrest PTI chief in May 9 attacks case

Team led by JIT head to visit Attock jail on Friday; Imran’s arrest to be documented at the jail, no transfer planned.

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[IceCold]

Khan is fighting a lost battle. He had governments in 2 provinces, his party was intact, his supporters were intact, he should had gone ahead with his call to Islamabad but he backed out and the establishment sensed his weakness and went a head with the first strike. Now he is in the prison, party members either arrested or in hiding or left, supporters arrested or in hiding or fearful of their lives, sitting quiet. His options are very limited at this point. Better for him to make a tactful retreat and live to fight another day. But knowing Khan he wont do it and this is what i am afraid off. At this point Pakistan cannot afford to lose a leader like him.

 

[Hakikat ve Hikmet]

Ahh duffers ahh...

They're making an East Pak out of the West Pak too....

They'll surrender......

 

[Hakikat ve Hikmet]

Khan is fighting a lost battle. He had governments in 2 provinces, his party was intact, his supporters were intact, he should had gone ahead with his call to Islamabad but he backed out and the establishment sensed his weakness and went a head with the first strike. Now he is in the prison, party members either arrested or in hiding or left, supporters arrested or in hiding or fearful of their lives, sitting quiet. His options are very limited at this point. Better for him to make a tactful retreat and live to fight another day. But knowing Khan he wont do it and this is what i am afraid off. At this point Pakistan cannot afford to lose a leader like him.

As for IK vis-à-vis the rest of the world, it's like "dead or alive", "now or never", "don't give a damn" etc. The most important thing is to get an "NRO" from HIM, the rest are all destined to be in Jehennem, which is ever living for the Zalimin....

To be, or not to be, that is the question:
Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,
Or to take Arms against a Sea of troubles,
And by opposing end them: to die, to sleep
No more; and by a sleep, to say we end
The heart-ache, and the thousand natural shocks
That Flesh is heir to? 'Tis a consummation
Devoutly to be wished. To die, to sleep,
To sleep, perchance to Dream; aye, there's the rub,
For in that sleep of death, what dreams may come,
When we have shuffled off this mortal coil,
Must give us pause. There's the respect
That makes Calamity of so long life:
For who would bear the Whips and Scorns of time,
The Oppressor's wrong, the proud man's Contumely, [F: poore]
The pangs of despised Love, the Law’s delay, [F: dispriz’d]
The insolence of Office, and the spurns
That patient merit of th'unworthy takes,
When he himself might his Quietus make
With a bare Bodkin? Who would Fardels bear, [F: these Fardels]
To grunt and sweat under a weary life,
But that the dread of something after death,
The undiscovered country, from whose bourn
No traveller returns, puzzles the will,
And makes us rather bear those ills we have,
Than fly to others that we know not of?
Thus conscience does make cowards of us all,
And thus the native hue of Resolution
Is sicklied o'er, with the pale cast of Thought,
And enterprises of great pitch and moment, [F: pith]
With this regard their Currents turn awry, [F: away]
And lose the name of Action. Soft you now,
The fair Ophelia? Nymph, in thy Orisons
Be all my sins remember'd.

 

[Thəorətic Muslim]

he should had gone ahead with his call to Islamabad but he backed out and the establishment sensed his weakness and went a head with the first strike.

He's an idiot who thinks Pakistan is some sort of European country.

Pakistanis are a dehumanizing greed-filled hypocritical self-serving people.

For anyone who disagrees with the above I offer you thousands of examples from the "best and brightest" Pakistan has to offer.